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		barsonme on Aug 17, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An unordered list of things I miss in Go > IMO it is a questionable decision to spend CPU resources on randomization … It takes about 3 ns to choose a random starting bucket, which is basically free relative to the iteration itself.

tgv on Aug 17, 2024 [–]

Isn't the trick that the runtime picks another hash-constant every time?

masklinn on Aug 18, 2024 | [–]

Aside from keying the hash function, Go specifically randomises the start offset of each map iteration.

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