using custom equal function in block_cache::cache_t #1264
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I expect this to fix the issue #1225 (if not, well, need to keep looking).
The theory behind this is the following:
The custom hash is used to determine the internal bucket in the internal hash table. The
libc++
implementation of thefind
, lookup the bucket and iterate all the elements (it could be one) and test for equality of the value (default is the==
). In this case, not providing a customequals
is a bug.Why it hasn't happened before? Looking at the
boost::unordered_set
implementation, branchRC_1_1
, in theirfind
algorithm, they lookup the bucket and they "cleverly" returns if only one element is found. If the bucket contains more than one element (hash collision) then they iterate using the equality. In this case, not providing a customequals
is irrelevant, since by "definition", this is a set and hash values should not create a collision.