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A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. (www.quantamagazine.org)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

the biggest speedup would probably come from using proper schemas that can be efficiently parsed. but we've made our bed out of ad-hoc protocols.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

JSON libraries are stupidly well optimized. There are binary encoding schemes that are faster and more compact, but its hard to beat JSON for text-based.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And yet all that pales in comparison to using react (or whatever framework) over vanilla js. Enter McMaster-Carr.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

yupyup, just send HTML over the wire. it's fine.