Copying all the elements
Copying all the elements
Posted Sep 24, 2014 16:04 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1)In reply to: Relativistic hash tables, part 1: Algorithms by kjp
Parent article: Relativistic hash tables, part 1: Algorithms
The most likely reason is that...you would have to copy all the elements. Depending on the size of the table, that could be a lot of copying. Concurrency with modifications would also become harder.