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(at least the stereotypical "interview" at the stereotypical tech company. Then again, I think Wall Street/financial firms probably do the same. exact. thing.)
Why drill a candidate for a technical writer position on hash functions and memory needs and speed and all that?
It seems to me like whichever company this was (I'm guessing Google) that the interviewer only knows how to ask one type of question, almost as if he/she was reading from a script.
In fact, you can have source code somewhere outside of your "workspace" and just point Eclipse to it, there is no requirement for the code to be inside the "workspace".
Otherwise, you can leave your structure intact and unchanged.
Do you have some links to other selector optimization tests/benchmarks/posts? I'd be interested in seeing those as well