The short version
A CppCon talk explaining the engineering path behind Swiss hash tables.
From the HackerLinks archive
Designing a Fast, Efficient, Cache-Friendly Hash Table, Step by Step
A CppCon talk explaining the engineering path behind Swiss hash tables.
At a glance:
First seen:2026-09-07
Last seen:2026-09-07
Times seen:1
Website:youtu.be
Why it caught our attention
A commenter explicitly called it excellent and highly recommended it.
Where it surfaced on Hacker News
2026-09-07
“for an excellent talk on the development of swiss tables i highly recommend this talk by Matt Kulukundis at CppCon 2017: "Designing a fast, efficient, cache-friendly hash table, step by step"”
nasso_dev · recommendation
Direct HN comment
How Swiss tables work in Go built-in map