Open addressing schemes also put more stringent requirements on the hash function : besides distributing the keys more uniformly over the buckets, the function must also minimize the clustering of hash values that are consecutive in the probe order.
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"' Quadratic probing "'is an open addressing scheme in computer programming for resolving collisions in hash tables when an incoming data's hash value indicates it should be stored in an already-occupied slot or bucket.
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A related phenomenon, "'secondary clustering "', occurs more generally with open addressing modes including linear probing and quadratic probing in which the probe sequence is independent of the key, as well as in hash chaining.
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On the other hand, normal open addressing is a poor choice for large elements, because these elements fill entire CPU cache lines ( negating the cache advantage ), and a large amount of space is wasted on large empty table slots.
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The primary disadvantage of open addressing is primary and secondary clustering, in which searches may access long sequences of used buckets that contain items with different hash addresses; items with one hash address can thus lengthen searches for items with other hash addresses.
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On the other hand, in open addressing, if a hash collision is found, then the table seeks an empty spot in an array to store the value in a deterministic manner, usually by looking at the next immediate position in the array.
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This is in contrast to most chaining and open addressing methods, where the time for lookup is low on average, but may be very large, O ( " n " ), for instance when all the keys hash to a few values.
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Collisions are managed only via " linear chaining " because the committee didn't consider it to be opportune to standardize solutions of " open addressing " that introduce quite a lot of intrinsic problems ( above all when erasure of elements is admitted ).
