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Why is chaining better than probing?
Why is chaining better than probing?
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Chaining with separate lists is generally faster than linear probing since chaining only searches items that hash to the same table location. With linear probing, the number of table entries is limited to the table size, whereas the linked lists used in chaining grow as necessary.