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    libalias: Switch to efficient data structure for outgoing traffic · 935fc93a
    Lutz Donnerhacke authored
    Current data structure is using a hash of unordered lists.  Those
    unordered lists are quite efficient, because the least recently
    inserted entries are most likely to be used again.  In order to avoid
    long search times in other cases, the lists are hashed into many
    buckets.  Unfortunatly a search for a miss needs an exhaustive
    inspection and a careful definition of the hash.
    
    Splay trees offer a similar feature - almost O(1) for access of the
    least recently used entries), and amortized O(ln(n) - for almost all
    other cases.  Get rid of the hash.
    
    Discussed with:	Dimitry Luhtionov
    MFC after:	1 week
    Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30516
    935fc93a