Dictionaries with array-like interface

[dmm]

This low-key talk might have been the single most useful talk of the whole JuliaCon 2021:

Dictionaries.jl - for improved productivity and performance

pretalx.com/juliacon2021/talk/WRNAEN/

and live.juliacon.org/talk/WRNAEN (that is, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-hAZcqAw28)

github.com/andyferris/Dictionaries.jl

I am going to recall my recent brushes with advanced dictionaries (and with their reshaping into arrays) in the comments.

Comments

[dmm]

One notable thing in that research draft is the mention of "minimal perfect hashes" (and a particular implementation of those) on page 5 (section 5.3).