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by jdmichal 4656 days ago
I think the alternate name for tries, radix trees, provides a good hint to potential use-cases. Any problem where the data can be broken down and searched by radix would be a potential good fit. You could even break down data structures with a lot of limited-enumeration fields in a similar way, using a different field at each depth, and gaining deduplication for each node which follows the same path through the structure.