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Don't you understand? (media.piefed.zip)

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[–] sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 months ago

Items are in a hash table using color/material type/shape as the hashing method optimized for human pattern recognition providing O(1) access. The table is smaller than the number of items causing some collisions. Those items are in a randomly sorted vector. Average case is still around O(1) with an O(n) worst case.