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During the build phase, split the raw data into enough buckets so each bucket stays small, which reduces disk I/O during lookups. During lookups, touch only a single bucket and load all of its data ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew ...