This commit removes DeprecatedString's "null" state, and replaces all
its users with one of the following:
- A normal, empty DeprecatedString
- Optional<DeprecatedString>
Note that null states of DeprecatedFlyString/StringView/etc are *not*
affected by this commit. However, DeprecatedString::empty() is now
considered equal to a null StringView.
With Clang, the previous/next pointers in buckets of an
`OrderedHashTable` are not cleared when a bucket is being shifted up as
a result of a removed bucket. As a result, an unfortunate pointer mixup
could lead to an infinite loop in the `HashTable` iterator, which was
exposed in `HashMap::keys()`.
Co-authored-by: Luke Wilde <lukew@serenityos.org>
This naming scheme matches Vector.
This also changes `take_last` to move the value it takes, and delete by
known pointer, avoiding a full lookup and potential copies.
Instead of rehashing on collisions, we use Robin Hood hashing: a simple
linear probe where we keep track of the distance between the bucket and
its ideal position. On insertion, we allow a new bucket to "steal" the
position of "rich" buckets (those near their ideal position) and move
them further down.
On removal, we shift buckets back up into the freed slot, decrementing
their distance while doing so.
This behavior automatically optimizes the number of required probes for
any value, and removes the need for periodic rehashing (except when
expanding the capacity).
We have a new, improved string type coming up in AK (OOM aware, no null
state), and while it's going to use UTF-8, the name UTF8String is a
mouthful - so let's free up the String name by renaming the existing
class.
Making the old one have an annoying name will hopefully also help with
quick adoption :^)
When calling clear_with_capacity on an empty HashTable/HashMap, a null
deref would occur when trying to memset() m_buckets. Checking that it
has capacity before clearing fixes the issue.
This caused a system-wide crash because of a previous bug relating to
non-trivial types in HashTable. Therefore, check that such types
actually work under various workloads.
Thrashing is what I call the situations where a table is mostly filled
with deleted markers, causing an increase in size (at least temporarily)
when a simple re-hash would be enough to get rid of those. This happens
when a hash table (especially with many elements) has a lot of deletes
and re-inserts done to it, which is what this benchmark does.
