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Comment by ozzmotik

5 years ago

I find it interesting that, with ~63k entries, they didn't just use a bloom filter to do a lookup on if the entity they're working with has already been seen. granted, they stoll need to store the data, but I think a bloom filter would be a more effective way to test if the item exists already

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