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I remember being taught about associative caches in CPU architecture, and later on programming the same in C. So I'm not sure about the 90's and hash tables be
by xarope 2y ago
I remember being taught about associative caches in CPU architecture, and later on programming the same in C. So I'm not sure about the 90's and hash tables being "exotic".
My first real use of hashes was in perl4; with perl5 released in 1996 (https://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/ https://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/), surely it meant people were also well aware of the usefulness of hash arrays even back then.
- cancerhacker 2y agoIt was a common practical interview question in 1996 to ask a candidate to implement a hash table in C.
- satiated_grue 2y agoI recall implementing hash tables in COBOL on a Univac. Not even kidding a little.