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Why this exists C has no dictionary or map. The moment you need "count by key", "look up by name" or "have I seen this before?", you need one, and writing it yourself is the standard way to understand how Python's dict,…

A Hash Table in C: Counting Hosts with Chaining, Resizing and a Top-N Report

Build a string-keyed hash table from scratch (hash function, buckets, chaining, growing at a load factor), use it to count requests per client from a log, and print a sorted top-five report, leak-free.

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