Intel® oneAPI Threading Building Blocks (oneTBB) Documentation

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  • 04/11/2022
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More on HashCompare

There are several ways to make the
HashCompare
 argument for
concurrent_hash_map
 work for your own types.
  • Specify the
    HashCompare
     argument explicitly
  • Let the
    HashCompare
     default to
    tbb_hash_compare<Key>
     and do one of the following:
    • Define a specialization of template
      tbb_hash_compare<Key>
      .
For example, if you have keys of type
Foo
, and
operator==
 is defined for
Foo
, you just have to provide a definition of
tbb_hasher
 as shown below:
size_t tbb_hasher(const Foo& f) {
    size_t h = ...compute hash code for f...
    return h;
};
In general, the definition of
tbb_hash_compare<Key>
 or
HashCompare
 must provide two signatures:
  • A method
    hash
     that maps a
    Key
     to a
    size_t
  • A method
    equal
     that determines if two keys are equal
The signatures go together in a single class because
if two keys are equal, then they must hash to the same value
, otherwise the hash table might not work. You could trivially meet this requirement by always hashing to
0
, but that would cause tremendous inefficiency. Ideally, each key should hash to a different value, or at least the probability of two distinct keys hashing to the same value should be kept low.
The methods of
HashCompare
 should be
static
 unless you need to have them behave differently for different instances. If so, then you should construct the
concurrent_hash_map
 using the constructor that takes a
HashCompare
 as a parameter. The following example is a variation on an earlier example with instance-dependent methods. The instance performs both case-sensitive or case-insensitive hashing, and comparison, depending upon an internal flag
ignore_case
.
// Structure that defines hashing and comparison operations
class VariantHashCompare {
    // If true, then case of letters is ignored.
    bool ignore_case;
public:
    size_t hash(const string& x) const {
        size_t h = 0;
        for(const char* s = x.c_str(); *s; s++)
            h = (h*16777179)^*(ignore_case?tolower(*s):*s);
        return h;
    }
    // True if strings are equal
    bool equal(const string& x, const string& y) const {
        if( ignore_case )
            strcasecmp(x.c_str(), y.c_str())==0;
        else
            return x==y;
    }
    VariantHashCompare(bool ignore_case_) : ignore_case(ignore_case_) {}
};


typedef concurrent_hash_map<string,int, VariantHashCompare> VariantStringTable;


VariantStringTable CaseSensitiveTable(VariantHashCompare(false));
VariantStringTable CaseInsensitiveTable(VariantHashCompare(true));

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