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It's kind of insane that such an obvious optimization can be patented, I have to imagine that it has been invented independently dozens if not hundreds of times.


that article sucks and doesnt describes real algorithm

I think this is inventors blog https://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2026/01/common-prefix-skippi...


Oh this is much more novel (comparatively), that makes a lot more sense. Kind of an amalgamation of a bunch of optimizations.

Thanks for sharing.


[+1] this was a good read




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