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The first paragraph states very clearly:

"And by that I mean that I have the fastest lookups of any hashtable I could find, while my inserts and erases are also really fast. (but not the fastest)"

Yes, it is the fastest that author wrote. However, that's not the sole claim. But also that it has the fastest lookups of any hashtable the author could find.

The complaint being that he did not do a very thorough job of finding alternatives, and thus the title of "I wrote the fastest hashtable" is not reasonable.

aka "I'm the smartest/fastest/strongest person of the people I could find"




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