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30th January 2009 - Link Blog

All you ever wanted to know about writing bloom filters. This helped me understand a key use case for bloom filters: reducing the impact of the “worst case search is when there are no matching results so everything gets scanned” problem.

Posted 30th January 2009 at 8:26 am

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