# hashbrown
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This crate is a Rust port of Google's high-performance [SwissTable] hash map,
adapted to make it a drop-in replacement for Rust's standard `HashMap` and
`HashSet` types.
The original C++ version of SwissTable can be found [here], and this
[CppCon talk] gives an overview of how the algorithm works.
Since Rust 1.36, the Rust standard library has adopted this implementation for
`HashMap`, using its own default hasher (see
[`std::hash::DefaultHasher`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/hash/struct.DefaultHasher.html)).
However you may still want to use this crate instead since it works in
environments without `std`, such as embedded systems and kernels.
[SwissTable]: https://abseil.io/blog/20180927-swisstables
[here]: https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/container/internal/raw_hash_set.h
[CppCon talk]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHmEUmJZf4
## [Change log](CHANGELOG.md)
## Features
- Drop-in replacement for the standard library `HashMap` and `HashSet` types.
- Uses [foldhash](https://github.com/orlp/foldhash) as the default hasher, which
is much faster than SipHash. However, foldhash does *not provide the same
level of HashDoS resistance* as SipHash, so if that is important to you, you
might want to consider using a different hasher.
- Around 2x faster than the previous standard library `HashMap`.
- Lower memory usage: only 1 byte of overhead per entry instead of 8.
- Compatible with `#[no_std]` (but requires a global allocator with the `alloc`
crate).
- Empty hash maps do not allocate any memory.
- SIMD lookups to scan multiple hash entries in parallel.
## Usage
Add this to your `Cargo.toml`:
```toml
[dependencies]
hashbrown = "0.17"
```
Then:
```rust
use hashbrown::HashMap;
let mut map = HashMap::new();
map.insert(1, "one");
```
## Flags
This crate has the following Cargo features:
- `nightly`: Enables nightly-only features including: `#[may_dangle]`.
- `serde`: Enables serde serialization support.
- `rayon`: Enables rayon parallel iterator support.
- `equivalent`: Allows comparisons to be customized with the `Equivalent` trait.
(enabled by default)
- `raw-entry`: Enables access to the deprecated `RawEntry` API.
- `inline-more`: Adds inline hints to most functions, improving run-time
performance at the cost of compilation time. (enabled by default)
- `default-hasher`: Compiles with foldhash as default hasher. (enabled by
default)
- `allocator-api2`: Enables support for allocators that support
`allocator-api2`. (enabled by default)
## License
Licensed under either of:
* Apache License, Version 2.0, ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or
https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
* MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or
https://opensource.org/license/mit)
at your option.
### Contribution
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be
dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.