Years ago, I overheard a hallway conversation about some performance tuning they were doing in VS 200x. Apparently they discovered several thousand hash tables

Years ago, I overheard a hallway conversation about some performance tuning they were doing in VS 200x. Apparently they discovered several thousand hash tables during the startup of the IDE. Not instances of hash tables. They found several thousand /implementations/ of hash tables. While I'm sure this story expanded every time it was told, I'm also sure there was a kernel of truth to it. Software is hard.