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Third batch of fixes for 7.0.1, on the open addressing tables, OLhashTable and ODhashTable. It closes a defect found while working on the hash tables batch (an insertion that threw could leave the table with an entry that nobody inserted) and two older ones, found by checking the rule that such a table always keeps an empty bucket: it is full with capacity() - 1 keys, so that a search that misses has a bucket to stop at.

  • An insertion whose key copy threw left a phantom entry. insert, search_or_insert, contains_or_insert and operator[] marked the bucket as busy before they copied the key into it. When the copy threw (a std::string without memory, for instance), the bucket stayed busy with whatever it held: a key by default, or a key that had been removed, which so came back. size() went up by one and the requested key was not there.
  • The phantom entry could crash the program later. When it duplicated a key of the table, the next growth found that key "already inserted" and dereferenced a null bucket.
  • An insertion that could not grow the table threw, but the key stayed in. The key is stored and then the table grows; if that failed, the caller got an exception and a retry reported the key as a duplicate.
  • A table that does not resize itself took a key in every bucket. Only the tables that grow applied the rule. One built with with_resize = false took capacity() keys; then ODhashTable failed an assertion on the next insertion, and operator[] with a new key dereferenced a null pointer, in both tables and in MapOLhash and MapODhash.
  • Shrinking could ask for a table too small for the keys. With a lower threshold over one half, which the documentation allows (0 < lower < upper < 1), remove_ptr() removed the key and then resize() threw std::overflow_error.
  • A growth, rehash() or resize() that threw while placing the keys lost some of them (found by the review). With keys whose swap can throw, such as a class with copy operations only, a failure halfway left the table with the keys placed so far, and the old buckets leaked.

Behaviour changes

  • insert, search_or_insert, contains_or_insert and operator[] leave the table as it was when they throw. If the key cannot be stored, the reservation of its bucket is undone; if the table cannot grow afterwards, the key is taken out again. An empty bucket is left empty: marked as removed it would not lose keys, but searches would go on past it, and enough failed insertions could leave a table far from full without empty buckets. A removed key's bucket stays marked while a probe sequence goes through it; in OLhashTable a mark that none needs is cleared, and ODhashTable gets back its probe counters exactly.
  • resize() and rehash() leave the table as it was when they throw. Keys whose swap may throw are copied into the new buckets instead of swapped, and a failure gives the table back its buckets.
  • A key whose swap can throw is copied, not swapped, by the insertions that take an rvalue. A class with copy operations only is the usual case. The argument is then left untouched. Keys with a noexcept swap, such as std::string, are swapped as before.
  • A table that does not resize itself is full with capacity() - 1 keys, one fewer than before. Then insert, search_or_insert and contains_or_insert return nullptr for a new key, as their documentation says, and still find the keys that are there. operator[] throws std::overflow_error for a new key, also in MapOLhash and MapODhash.
  • remove_ptr() shrinks the table only if the keys fit in half the capacity under the upper threshold, with an empty bucket left. With the default thresholds it shrinks as before.

Not changed

  • If shrinking fails (for lack of memory, or a key copy that throws), remove_ptr() still throws after it has removed the key. The table keeps its other keys.
  • The marks of removed keys do not count toward growing or rebuilding the table, so insertions and removals can leave an OLhashTable far from full without empty buckets; searches that miss then go through the whole table until rehash(). Changing that is for 7.1.0.
  • The chained tables do not have these defects: they build the node with the key before they link it, and they never get full.

Performance

Measured in instructions executed, since timings on the test machine vary by 10 % between runs of the same binary. Insertion by copy, by move and through search_or_insert, with long and with std::string keys, in both tables, with GCC 14 and Clang 22 at -O2: between −1.8 % and +0.3 % against the previous code, over 24 configurations. The code that every insertion runs is as short as before: growing the table is a function apart, and keys whose copy cannot throw get no try block.

Testing

  • 27 new tests in Tests/hash-it.cc. Against the code of fix(hash): Keep hash tables consistent through copy, move and swap #111, 23 of them fail, two with a segmentation fault and three on an assertion; the other four check that shrinking works as before where it already worked.
    • Failed insertions: the four operations, a table with removed keys and crowded buckets, the three kinds of probe of ODhashTable, growth that fails, empty buckets that failed insertions must not use up, removed marks that no probe sequence needs, and 20 000 mixed operations checked against a std::set. Except for the mixed operations, these tests compare the state of every bucket after the failed insertions with the one it had before.
    • Growth, rehash() and resize() that fail while placing copy-only keys, with each copy failing in turn. Without the fix LeakSanitizer also reports the old buckets.
    • Full tables without resizing: insertions, lookups and operator[], in both tables and in MapOLhash and MapODhash.
    • Shrinking with a lower threshold over one half, also when the keys leave exactly one bucket empty.
  • 5 existing tests expected a table without resizing to take a key in every bucket. They now expect capacity() - 1 keys.
  • Growth that fails for lack of memory was checked with a separate probe that replaces operator new[].
  • Full suite with GCC 14 in Debug: 13 380 tests, 0 failed.
  • 25 test programs that use the hash tables, with Clang 22 under ASan, UBSan and LeakSanitizer: no reports. After the review fixes, the 9 that use the open addressing tables again: no reports.
  • Syntax check with GCC 11 and with Clang 14 plus libc++; the 366 examples compile.
  • Not tested locally: Windows.

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    • Las tablas de direccionamiento abierto sin redimensionamiento gestionan correctamente las inserciones al llenarse y evitan errores al acceder a claves que no caben.
    • Si una inserción, un crecimiento o un cambio de tamaño falla, la tabla conserva su estado y puede seguir utilizándose.
    • El redimensionamiento y la reducción de capacidad respetan los límites de ocupación de la tabla.

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El cambio ajusta la capacidad efectiva de las tablas hash y el comportamiento de las operaciones cuando están llenas. También añade recuperación ante excepciones durante inserciones y reconstrucciones, y limita la reducción de capacidad según las claves restantes y el umbral de carga.

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Tablas hash de direccionamiento abierto

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Capacidad efectiva y operaciones en tablas llenas
hashDry.H, tpl_dynMapOhash.H, Tests/hash-it.cc
Las tablas sin redimensionamiento automático dejan un bucket vacío y rechazan claves nuevas cuando alcanzan el límite. Las búsquedas e inserciones devuelven claves existentes si las encuentran. operator[] lanza std::overflow_error si no puede insertar una clave nueva.
Reversión de inserciones y reconstrucciones fallidas
hash-dry.H, hashDry.H, tpl_odhash.H, tpl_olhash.H, Tests/hash-it.cc
Las reservas se revierten si falla la copia de una clave. Si falla el crecimiento o la reconstrucción, la tabla conserva su estado anterior. Las pruebas verifican claves, tamaño, capacidad y estado de sondeo tras los fallos.
Reducción de capacidad
hashDry.H, Tests/hash-it.cc
La tabla reduce su capacidad solo si las claves caben en la capacidad candidata y la carga queda bajo upper_alpha. Las pruebas comprueban las claves restantes y los umbrales.

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The change makes the open-addressing hash tables leave their state unchanged when an insertion or rebuild fails. Tables that cannot grow now reject new keys once one bucket remains empty. Shrinking now happens only when the remaining keys fit. No outstanding merge-blocking issues remain.

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⚠️ Baseline was recorded on Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 7 265KF but this run used AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core Processor. Absolute times are not comparable across CPUs, so the gate is advisory until the baseline is regenerated on this hardware (run the perf-update workflow on master).

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baseline CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 7 265KF · compiler gcc 13.3.0 · recorded 2026-06-08T18:09:09Z

Benchmark Baseline (ms) Current (ms) Δ Threshold Status
gol_1024 3426.47 3676.65 +7.3% ±8% ℹ️ advisory
gray_scott_512 7328.14 17359.10 +136.9% ±8% ℹ️ advisory
hashlife_breeder 2057.25 2169.93 +5.5% ±12% ℹ️ advisory
multi_field_lv_512 4285.60 4599.22 +7.3% ±10% ℹ️ advisory
parallel_gol_2048 998.97 7374.82 +638.2% ±20% ℹ️ advisory
wolfram_30_1d 4063.23 11933.08 +193.7% ±8% ℹ️ advisory

Lower wall time is better; Δ is current vs. baseline.

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