#collision-handling

5.3 Collision Handling

5.3 Collision Handling Problem Different keys can produce the same bucket index. A hash table must store and retrieve all such keys without losing correctness or degrading excessively in performance. Solution Use a collision resolution strategy. The two standard approaches are separate chaining and open addressing. Separate chaining Each bucket stores a small collection of entries. bucket[i] = list of (key, value) Lookup scans only the selected bucket. lookup(table, key):...