hashmap 
Overview
A Golang lock-free thread-safe HashMap optimized for fastest read access.
Usage
Set a value for a key in the map:
m := &HashMap{}
m.Set("amount", 123)
Read a value for a key from the map:
amount, ok := m.Get("amount")
Use the map to count URL requests:
var i int64
actual, _ := m.GetOrInsert("api/123", &i)
counter := (actual).(*int64)
atomic.AddInt64(counter, 1) // increase counter
...
count := atomic.LoadInt64(counter) // read counter
Benchmarks
Reading from the hash map in a thread-safe way is nearly as fast as reading from a standard Golang map in an unsafe way and twice as fast as Go's sync.Map:
BenchmarkReadHashMapUint-8 200000 6830 ns/op
BenchmarkReadGoMapUintUnsafe-8 300000 4280 ns/op
BenchmarkReadGoMapUintMutex-8 30000 51294 ns/op
BenchmarkReadGoSyncMapUint-8 200000 10351 ns/op
If your keys for the map are already hashes, no extra hashing needs to be done by the map:
BenchmarkReadHashMapHashedKey-8 1000000 1692 ns/op
Reading from the map while writes are happening:
BenchmarkReadHashMapWithWritesUint-8 200000 8395 ns/op
BenchmarkReadGoMapWithWritesUintMutex-8 10000 143793 ns/op
BenchmarkReadGoSyncMapWithWritesUint-8 100000 12221 ns/op
Write performance without any concurrent reads:
BenchmarkWriteHashMapUint-8 10000 210383 ns/op
BenchmarkWriteGoMapMutexUint-8 30000 53331 ns/op
BenchmarkWriteGoSyncMapUint-8 10000 176903 ns/op
The benchmarks were run with Golang 1.10.1 on MacOS.
Benefits over Golangs builtin map
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Faster
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thread-safe access without need of a(n extra) mutex
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Compare-and-swap access for values
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Access functions for keys that are hashes and do not need to be hashed again
Benefits over Golangs sync.Map
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Faster
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Access functions for keys that are hashes and do not need to be hashed again
Technical details
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Technical design decisions have been made based on benchmarks that are stored in an external repository: go-benchmark
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The library uses a sorted doubly linked list and a slice as an index into that list.
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The Get() function contains helper functions that have been inlined manually until the Golang compiler will inline them automatically.
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It optimizes the slice access by circumventing the Golang size check when reading from the slice. Once a slice is allocated, the size of it does not change. The library limits the index into the slice, therefore the Golang size check is obsolete. When the slice reaches a defined fill rate, a bigger slice is allocated and all keys are recalculated and transferred into the new slice.
