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Maybe you need to re-consider your fundamental algorithms. When you start to delve into these "virtual" memory sizes, you start to realize that "virtual" memory is really a disk file. And, as "hash" data structures strive to randomize their memory-address references, as they are designed to do ... they run into an argument with the operating system that they are doomed to lose.
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by Anonymous Monk on Mar 22, 2021 at 14:02 UTC
    Sounds (on the surface) like he knows what he's talking about; adds zero value to the discourse.