I've really wanted to try making a hash table that works like a Swiss table but that stores the metadata interleaved with the rest of the data (16 metadata, 16

I've really wanted to try making a hash table that works like a Swiss table but that stores the metadata interleaved with the rest of the data (16 metadata, 16 key, 16 value, repeat). doing so would keep your memory accesses closer together, but be a pain to program