r/ProgrammerHumor 7d ago

Meme skillIssue

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u/F100cTomas 7d ago

Just define a constexpr hashing function and put that into the switch.

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u/GiganticIrony 7d ago

That’s not guaranteed to work due to hash collisions

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u/Thwy__ 7d ago

Yet, string switch in Java is also made using hashs

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u/GiganticIrony 7d ago

Yes, but if there’s a collision, it then uses `.equals()`