I was not talking about the article but the benchmark site linked. Not sure what you want to say with the wikipedia citation. I have not made a comprehensive list, but the topic has come up when discussing one of the Go benchmarks. The Go language has a build-in hashtable, called a map, and this does not allow to specify custom hash functions. Of course rolling out a hashtable implementation which does allow this is prohibited by the benchmark rules. Probably intentionally, also like your distraction attempts are hinting to.