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by sltkr 4983 days ago
That's hardly a fool-proof solution, because you still end up with a document that's has a very large logical size (even if you represent it in a very compact way in memory) and any non-trivial operation on the resulting string that needs to evaluate it on a character-by-character basis (e.g. a substring search) will still take "forever" to complete.