item hop item hop item hop figure hopscotch hashing table attempting to insert linear probing suggests location but that is too farso we evict from position to find closer position item hop item hop item hop figure hopscotch hashing table attempting to insert linear probing suggests location but that is too farconsulting hop[ ]we see that can move downleaving position open consulting hop[ gives no suggestions hop[ does not help either (why?)so hop[ suggests moving hopscotch hashing is relatively new algorithmbut the initial experimental results are very promisingespecially for applications that make use of multiple processors and require significant parallelism and concurrency it remains to be seen if either cuckoo hashing or hopscotch hashing emerge as practical alternative to the classic separate chaining and linear/quadratic probing schemes