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[–] FarceOfWill 1 points 6 months ago

The key (aha) feature seems to be that the new data structure returns a hint that can be used alongside the key on lookup to make it faster.

So, useful but not applicable in the majority of cases as you really do literally just have the key.

That's from a quick skim there may be more to it