GOLF(2gg)

💖 GOLF(2gg) — get-hash 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the GOLF(2gg) manual, section Development, and today's main character is get-hash 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

get-hash — (hash)

🎯 PURPOSE 🎯

Get usage specifics for a hash. that's it, that's the whole vibe 💅

🎀 SYNTAX 🎀

get-hash  <hash > \
    ( length <length> ) \
    | ( hash-size <hash size> ) \
    | ( average-reads <reads> )

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so get-hash gives you the usage specifics of a <hash> — and like, a hash that was created by new-hash, obviously. iykyk 💖

Use the length clause to obtain its <length>, which is literally the number of elements stored in it. then there's the hash-size clause, which gets you its <hash size> — that's the number of "buckets", aka the possible hash codes in the underlying hash table. buckets!! 🪣✨

The average-reads clause will obtain, in <reads>, the average number of reads — meaning how many string comparisons are needed on average to find a key — multiplied by 100. so if the average number of reads was 1.5, it will be 150. no cap, it just does that 🍓

This info is lowkey useful for determining the performance of a hash, and for figuring out whether resize-hash is indicated. like, vibe check your hash before you start resizing things 👑

🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

get-hash h length l hash-size s average-reads r

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Hash

get-hash new-hash purge-hash read-hash resize-hash write-hash

See all documentation

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