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by achierius 1 hour ago
No, that's not the point. This isn't a situation where you need to "guess"; bloom filters should be sized according to their capacity. This is akin to having a fixed 10-arg buffer for your program, getting a crash when someone passes 11, and saying "this is the kind of bug you only find by building the thing and measuring it". Yeah it happens and we all make silly mistakes, but it's just not true that this couldn't have been foreseen.