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Actually, I might have misunderstood you. In your example, the index in the array is treated like the hash of the item you've put in there, why are we suddenly

Actually, I might have misunderstood you. In your example, the index in the array is treated like the hash of the item you've put in there, why are we suddenly considering pointers?

gumby 8y ago
In this degenerate case the "hash function" is base_address+(index*sizeof(memory_address))
- bialpio 8y ago
  Not really, the function is still f(key) = <some number>, the rest is just taking the number and mapping it to the hardware that you're on.