Indeed, a decent closed hash table is maybe 30 lines. An open hash table with linear probing is even less, especially if you don't need to remove entries. It's

Indeed, a decent closed hash table is maybe 30 lines. An open hash table with linear probing is even less, especially if you don't need to remove entries. It's almost identical to a linear search through an array; you just change where you start iterating. In my first stage Onramp linker [1], converting linear search to an open hash table adds a grand total of 24 bytecode instructions, including the FNV-1a hash function. There's no reason to ever linear search a symbol table. [1]: https://github.com/ludocode/onramp/blob/develop/core/ld/0-global/ld.oe.ohx https://github.com/ludocode/onramp/blob/develop/core/ld/0-gl...