My hat goes off to the incredible amount of work needed to prepare this benchmark! I'm left hanging with the conclusion: > So what’s actually the best map to

My hat goes off to the incredible amount of work needed to prepare this benchmark! I'm left hanging with the conclusion: > So what’s actually the best map to choose? As you saw above, it depends. There are a lot of excellent implementations to choose from, each with different properties. I can’t give any advice here. The paradox of choice strikes hard. Where do I even start? Then again, I know the answer is "use the C++ hashmap until you run into problems, then figure out what those problems are, and look for a version that helps." In any case, I'm a Python programmer, not a C++ one. ;)