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> roughly constant time for the most common cases.

For small values of n ;)

A tree of maps would be consistently log(n), like any map. Even a hashtable would hash to buckets eventually, and are log(n).



Not if you're using a Cuckoo hashmap.

Honestly, I have no idea why people aren't taught Cuckoo-maps by default. It's simple, has true O(1) worst-case lookup, and has easy deletion. About the only problem is trying to prove insertion time.




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