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It may not be practical to add logic into your program to ensure you use different internal submaps from each thread. Still, locking the whole parallel_hash_map for each access would forego taking advantage of its intrinsic parallelism.
-For that reason, the parallel_hash_map provides optional internal locking using the absl::Mutex (the default template parameter is absl::NullMutex, which does no locking and doesn't have any extra size cost). When selecting absl::Mutex, one mutex is created for each internal submap at a cost of 8 bytes per submap.
For that reason, the parallel_hash_map can provide internal locking using the absl::Mutex (the default template parameter is absl::NullMutex, which does no locking and has no size cost). When selecting absl::Mutex, one mutex is created for each internal submap at a cost of 8 bytes per submap.