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> Isn't the last part of the Cuckoo hashing paper the > part that documents it as slight less good compared > to existing algorithms?

No, Cuckoo hashing is a trade of a little run-time performance for better memory utilization. It's still O(1). The performance cost amortizes as a constant.

If you have gobs of memory you don't need it. But if you're memory-constrained it's a big win.



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