A reimplementation of Google's sparsehash in C
A simple re-implementation of Google's sparsehash as a learning excercise. - qpfiffer/Simple-Sparsehash
A reimplementation of Google's sparsehash in C launched on June 12, 2015 with 22 votes, #1,341 of 3,954 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.
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Simple-Sparsehash is a C implementation of Google's sparsehash data structure created as a learning exercise. It provides a hash table designed to use minimal memory while maintaining efficient performance. The project is intended for developers interested in understanding hash table implementations and memory-efficient data structures. The code is available on GitHub for study and reference purposes.
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