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concurrent-map

A high-performance, thread-safe generic map for Go. Originally derived from orcaman/concurrent-map, now extensively redesigned with a modern sync.Map-style API, AxHash, and an optimized sharded architecture.

What's different from the original

Area	Original (orcaman)	This project
API	Set / Get / Remove / Items / Keys	Store / Load / Delete / LoadOrStore / LoadAndDelete / Range - aligned with sync.Map
Hash function	FNV-1	AxHash - optimized folded-multiply hashing
Shard selection	% SHARD_COUNT	& shardMask (power-of-two optimized)
Read path	sync.RWMutex on every read	Lock-free fast path via atomic.Pointer snapshot
False sharing	None	64-byte cache-line padding per shard
Full scan	Sequential	ParallelRange (parallel shard traversal)
Generics	No	Yes - ConcurrentMap[K, V]

Install

go get github.com/robby031/concurrent-map

Usage

import cmap "github.com/robby031/concurrent-map"

// string key map
m := cmap.New[string]()

// Store a value
m.Store("user:1", "alice")

// Load a value
val, ok := m.Load("user:1")

// Load existing or store new
actual, loaded := m.LoadOrStore("user:1", "bob")

// Load and delete atomically
val, ok = m.LoadAndDelete("user:1")

// Delete
m.Delete("user:2")

// Iterate all entries (sequential, supports early-exit)
m.Range(func(key string, val string) bool {
    fmt.Println(key, val)
    return true // return false to stop early
})

// Iterate all entries (parallel, no early-exit - f must be goroutine-safe)
m.ParallelRange(func(key string, val string) {
    fmt.Println(key, val)
})

// Count entries
n := m.Count()

// Clear all entries
m.Clear()

// JSON marshal / unmarshal
data, _ := json.Marshal(m)
json.Unmarshal(data, &m)

Custom key types

// Any comparable type with a custom shard function
m := cmap.NewWithCustomShardingFunction[uint32, string](func(key uint32) uint32 {
    return key
})

// Types implementing fmt.Stringer
type UserID int
func (u UserID) String() string { return strconv.Itoa(int(u)) }

m := cmap.NewStringer[UserID, string]()

Shard count

Default is 32. Must be a positive power of 2. Set before creating a map:

cmap.SHARD_COUNT = 64
m := cmap.New[string]()

Benchmark

go test -bench=. -benchmem on Apple M4 (arm64, 10 cores):

BenchmarkSingleInsertAbsent-10             6,560,301     225 ns/op    108 B/op    3 allocs/op
BenchmarkSingleInsertAbsentSyncMap-10      6,159,630     291 ns/op    125 B/op    3 allocs/op

BenchmarkSingleInsertPresent-10           51,555,249      23 ns/op     24 B/op    1 allocs/op
BenchmarkSingleInsertPresentSyncMap-10    49,531,599      24 ns/op     48 B/op    1 allocs/op

BenchmarkMultiInsertSame-10                  853,836    1413 ns/op    260 B/op   11 allocs/op
BenchmarkMultiInsertSameSyncMap-10           582,462    1915 ns/op    832 B/op   31 allocs/op

BenchmarkMultiGetSame-10                   6,313,579     188 ns/op     16 B/op    1 allocs/op
BenchmarkMultiGetSameSyncMap-10            6,423,794     185 ns/op     16 B/op    1 allocs/op

BenchmarkMultiGetSetBlock_32_Shard-10      2,472,537     498 ns/op    304 B/op   12 allocs/op
BenchmarkMultiGetSetBlockSyncMap-10        1,791,478     663 ns/op    864 B/op   32 allocs/op

BenchmarkRange-10                             20,277   59515 ns/op     62 B/op    1 allocs/op
BenchmarkParallelRange-10                     34,318   31625 ns/op   1552 B/op   33 allocs/op

BenchmarkHash_Short-10               398,327,686       3.0 ns/op      0 B/op    0 allocs/op
BenchmarkHash_Medium-10              196,362,145       6.1 ns/op      0 B/op    0 allocs/op

Key takeaways:

• 25% faster than sync.Map for absent-key writes
• On par with sync.Map for concurrent reads of the same key (lock-free path)
• 2x faster than sync.Map for mixed read/write workload (32 shards)
• 32% faster for concurrent same-key writes (sharding eliminates single-mutex bottleneck)
• ParallelRange is 47% faster than sequential Range for full scans

License

MIT

Documentation

Index

• Variables
• type ConcurrentMap
  • func New[V any]() ConcurrentMap[string, V]
  • func NewStringer[K Stringer, V any]() ConcurrentMap[K, V]
  • func NewWithCustomShardingFunction[K comparable, V any](sharding func(key K) uint32) ConcurrentMap[K, V]
  • func (m ConcurrentMap[K, V]) Clear()
  • func (m ConcurrentMap[K, V]) Count() int
  • func (m ConcurrentMap[K, V]) Delete(key K)
  • func (m ConcurrentMap[K, V]) Load(key K) (V, bool)
  • func (m ConcurrentMap[K, V]) LoadAndDelete(key K) (V, bool)
  • func (m ConcurrentMap[K, V]) LoadOrStore(key K, value V) (actual V, loaded bool)
  • func (m ConcurrentMap[K, V]) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error)
  • func (m ConcurrentMap[K, V]) ParallelRange(f func(key K, value V))
  • func (m ConcurrentMap[K, V]) Range(f func(key K, value V) bool)
  • func (m ConcurrentMap[K, V]) Store(key K, value V)
  • func (m *ConcurrentMap[K, V]) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) error
• type ConcurrentMapShared
• type Stringer

Variables

var SHARD_COUNT = 32

Types

type ConcurrentMap

type ConcurrentMap[K comparable, V any] struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

Map ConcurrentMap is a thread-safe map partitioned into shards to reduce lock contention.

func New

func New[V any]() ConcurrentMap[string, V]

func NewStringer

func NewStringer[K Stringer, V any]() ConcurrentMap[K, V]

func NewWithCustomShardingFunction

func NewWithCustomShardingFunction[K comparable, V any](sharding func(key K) uint32) ConcurrentMap[K, V]

func (ConcurrentMap[K, V]) Clear

func (m ConcurrentMap[K, V]) Clear()

Clear removes all items from map.

func (ConcurrentMap[K, V]) Count

func (m ConcurrentMap[K, V]) Count() int

Count returns the number of elements within the map.

func (ConcurrentMap[K, V]) Delete

func (m ConcurrentMap[K, V]) Delete(key K)

Delete deletes the value for a key.

func (ConcurrentMap[K, V]) Load

func (m ConcurrentMap[K, V]) Load(key K) (V, bool)

Load returns the value stored in the map for a key, or the zero value if no value is present. The ok result indicates whether value was found in the map. Fast path (no mutex): key found in read snapshot. Slow path (mutex): key is in dirty only; increments miss counter.

func (ConcurrentMap[K, V]) LoadAndDelete

func (m ConcurrentMap[K, V]) LoadAndDelete(key K) (V, bool)

LoadAndDelete deletes the value for a key, returning the previous value if any. The loaded result reports whether the key was present. Fast path (no mutex): key found in read snapshot and successfully CAS-deleted. Slow path (mutex): key is in dirty only, or read was amended.

func (ConcurrentMap[K, V]) LoadOrStore

func (m ConcurrentMap[K, V]) LoadOrStore(key K, value V) (actual V, loaded bool)

LoadOrStore returns the existing value for the key if present. Otherwise, it stores and returns the given value. The loaded result is true if the value was loaded, false if stored.

func (ConcurrentMap[K, V]) MarshalJSON

func (m ConcurrentMap[K, V]) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error)

func (ConcurrentMap[K, V]) ParallelRange

func (m ConcurrentMap[K, V]) ParallelRange(f func(key K, value V))

ParallelRange calls f concurrently - one goroutine per shard - for every key-value pair in the map. f must be safe for concurrent calls from multiple goroutines. Unlike Range, there is no early-exit.

func (ConcurrentMap[K, V]) Range

func (m ConcurrentMap[K, V]) Range(f func(key K, value V) bool)

Range calls f sequentially for each key and value present in the map. If f returns false, Range stops the iteration. Range promotes each shard's dirty map to read before iterating, then releases the lock - writers are not blocked during the iteration itself.

func (ConcurrentMap[K, V]) Store

func (m ConcurrentMap[K, V]) Store(key K, value V)

Operations Store sets the value for a key. Fast path (no mutex): key is already in the read snapshot and not expunged. Slow path (mutex): new key, or key was expunged and must be re-added to dirty.

func (*ConcurrentMap[K, V]) UnmarshalJSON

func (m *ConcurrentMap[K, V]) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) error

type ConcurrentMapShared

type ConcurrentMapShared[K comparable, V any] struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

ConcurrentMapShared is one cache-line-padded shard. Layout (64-bit): mu=8, read=8, dirty=8, misses=8 → 32 bytes → 32 pad → 64 total.

type Stringer

type Stringer interface {
	fmt.Stringer
	comparable
}