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in reply to Re^2: Store larg hashes more efficiently (10e6 md5s in 260MB at 4µs per lookup)
in thread Store large hashes more efficiently

Finally, it might be interesting to play with masking different amount of bits to see the space-saving vs. lookup time tradeoffs for different degrees of sparseness.

By all means; play.


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