Practical Perfect Hashing

نویسندگان

  • Gordon V. Cormack
  • R. Nigel Horspool
  • Matthias Kaiserswerth
چکیده

A practical method is presented that permits retrieval from a table in constant time. The method is suitable for large tables and consumes, in practice, O(n) space for n table elements. In addition, the table and the hashing function can be constructed in O(n) expected time. Variations of the method that offer different compromises between storage usage and update time are presented.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Comput. J.

دوره 28  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1985