Added dictGetRandomKeys() to dict.c: mass get random entries.
This new function is useful to get a number of random entries from an hash table when we just need to do some sampling without particularly good distribution. It just jumps at a random place of the hash table and returns the first N items encountered by scanning linearly. The main usefulness of this function is to speedup Redis internal sampling of the key space, for example for key eviction or expiry.
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