The steps are an artifact of the X-axis, which is logarithmic. The first step occurs from 1 resource to 2 resources, on so on. A hash table can't be used for t

The steps are an artifact of the X-axis, which is logarithmic. The first step occurs from 1 resource to 2 resources, on so on. A hash table can't be used for this kind of check because it uses patterns, so resources need to be compared on a pattern. Although I'm sure there are special cases, like hash tables of domain names, which cover a large portion rules.