This injects a customization point for hashtable-specific equality
testing that the key context uses by default. While this is rarely
needed, there are LLVM types where it is necessary and it seems a good
general tool to have to avoid unnecessary complexity from custom key
contexts when a simple customization of equality is all that is
required.
This also adds a CRTP mixin for implementing a common pattern of key
contexts where the context provides translation of some key types into
another type, potentially using state. Rather than having to implement
the entire key context API, code can derive from this template and
simply provide a set of overloads for the types it wants to translate.
Any key types used which can be passed to one of those overloads will
get translated before following the same logic as the default key
context. While this updates the only usage so far of this pattern, a
subsequent PR will add several more users making the pattern worth
abstracting here.
The hash table design is heavily based on Abseil's ["Swiss
Tables"][swiss-tables] design. It uses an array of bytes storing
metadata about each entry and an array of entries where each is a pair
of key and value. The metadata byte consists of 7-bits of hash of the
key (distinct from the bits used to index the table), and one bit
indicating the presence of a special entry -- either empty or deleted.
[swiss-tables]: https://abseil.io/about/design/swisstables
There are a large range of optimizations and other nuanced aspects of
this hash table design and implementation, a good point to understand
that context is `raw_hashtable.h` which has an overview of the design
and references to various other files for relevant details.
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Co-authored-by: josh11b <15258583+josh11b@users.noreply.github.com>
Chandler Carruth
