go map define

// A header for a Go map.
type hmap struct {
    // Note: the format of the hmap is also encoded in cmd/compile/internal/reflectdata/reflect.go.
    // Make sure this stays in sync with the compiler's definition.
    count     int // # live cells == size of map.  Must be first (used by len() builtin)
    flags     uint8
    B         uint8  // log_2 of # of buckets (can hold up to loadFactor * 2^B items)
    noverflow uint16 // approximate number of overflow buckets; see incrnoverflow for details
    hash0     uint32 // hash seed

    buckets    unsafe.Pointer // array of 2^B Buckets. may be nil if count==0.
    oldbuckets unsafe.Pointer // previous bucket array of half the size, non-nil only when growing
    nevacuate  uintptr        // progress counter for evacuation (buckets less than this have been evacuated)

    extra *mapextra // optional fields
}

// mapextra holds fields that are not present on all maps.
type mapextra struct {
    // If both key and elem do not contain pointers and are inline, then we mark bucket
    // type as containing no pointers. This avoids scanning such maps.
    // However, bmap.overflow is a pointer. In order to keep overflow buckets
    // alive, we store pointers to all overflow buckets in hmap.extra.overflow and hmap.extra.oldoverflow.
    // overflow and oldoverflow are only used if key and elem do not contain pointers.
    // overflow contains overflow buckets for hmap.buckets.
    // oldoverflow contains overflow buckets for hmap.oldbuckets.
    // The indirection allows to store a pointer to the slice in hiter.
    overflow    *[]*bmap
    oldoverflow *[]*bmap

    // nextOverflow holds a pointer to a free overflow bucket.
    nextOverflow *bmap
}

// A bucket for a Go map.
type bmap struct {
    // tophash generally contains the top byte of the hash value
    // for each key in this bucket. If tophash[0] < minTopHash,
    // tophash[0] is a bucket evacuation state instead.
    tophash [bucketCnt]uint8
    // Followed by bucketCnt keys and then bucketCnt elems.
    // NOTE: packing all the keys together and then all the elems together makes the
    // code a bit more complicated than alternating key/elem/key/elem/... but it allows
    // us to eliminate padding which would be needed for, e.g., map[int64]int8.
    // Followed by an overflow pointer.
}