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An Extensive Benchmark of C and C++ Hash Tables | A comparative, extendible benchmarking suite for C and C++ hash-table libraries. (jacksonallan.github.io)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

tl;dr:

std::unordered_map is one of the worst ones, boost::unordered_flat_map and absl::flat_hash_map are one of the best.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

std::unordered_map is one of the worst ones

It should be noted that the benchmark focused on the std::unordered_map implementation from GCC 13.2.0. I'm not sure if/how this conclusion can be extended to other implementations such as msvc or clang.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Well the author claims that it's not possible for std::unordered_map to get close to other implementations because of constraints that the standard imposes on it. I.e. faster implementations simply behave slightly differently (in ways that are not important to most users).