Different answer: the latest version of hash_map is probably from the
mid-1990s when HP and SGI fiddled with it. I doubt anyone else made
any important changes to it.
People used hash_map as a faster but non-standard alternative to
std::map over the decades, until it was finally standardized in a
slightly different form called first std::tr1::unordered_map, and then
in C++11 std::unordered_map.
/Jorgen
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