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bluuewhale

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    Comment #46353587

    Author here! I wanted to share a follow-up to this post. https://bluuewhale.github.io/posts/further-optimizing-my-jav... This time I went back with a profiler and optimized the act…

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    Comment #46283771

    Great write-up. This kind of "debugging journey" post is gold.

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    Comment #46283741

    Ohhh, I went digging after your comment and I think this is exactly what you were referring to: JDK-7192942 ("Inefficient calculation of power of two in HashMap"). I honestly love …

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    Comment #46283672

    This is a really fun project! In SwissTable, the main difference is that you only get a probabilistic signal of presence (kind of like a Bloom filter), but the core idea feels very…

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    Comment #46283643

    Thanks. This is actually one of the topics I really want to tackle next. If we just wrap every API call with synchronized, I'd expect heavy contention (some adaptive spinning and t…

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    Comment #46283539

    Thanks for the heads-up! I'm still figuring out Hugo, so I'm not sure I can fix it right away, but I'll take a look.

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    Comment #46283518

    Thanks! Appreciate it

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    Comment #46262509

    Thanks for the feedback. You've nailed the core idea. I'll tweak the structure a bit to make the concepts clearer up front.

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    Author here! Thanks for the great point. This is actually the main topic I'm working on for the next post. It's understandable to expect SIMD to win purely because it's wider, but …