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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
by dafelst 2mo ago
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.
- rasz 2mo agothat article sucks and doesnt describes real algorithm I think this is inventors blog https://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2026/01/common-prefix-skipping-adaptive-sort.html https://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2026/01/common-prefix-skippi...