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by xtomus 2414 days ago
You can either ship a 2 dimensional linear search approach today or ship an R tree based approach in 2 weeks time. I know which one in choosing if they both meet all of the requirements
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Just about every modern language has a well established R-tree library...
I mean why stop there? Let's remove the database indexes too. Hell, why use a hashtable when you have lists amirite?