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# Abseil

## Use cases

* [Swiss table](https://abseil.io/blog/20180927-swisstables) - one of the fastest hashmap implementations out there for C++. Rust's [hashbrown](https://github.com/rust-lang/hashbrown) is a port of this technique to Rust, which is faster than the hashmap in Rust's standard library.