# Faster Go maps with Swiss Tables - The Go Programming Language

<https://go.dev/blog/swisstable>

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## What Jamie wrote

Cool reading on the implementation details of maps in Go. Very few engineers ever need to write this kind of code, but there are also far too many engineers that have no idea what is happening in the machine when they declare that dictionary in Python.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT312: Weekly Thing 312 / Tangled, Graphing, Starlink](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/312/), Briefly

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