A blockchain is a digital record-keeping system that doesn't rely on a central authority to verify what's true. While Bitcoin's launch in 2009 made blockchains part of our vocabulary, the concept ...

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Trie implementation based on the "HAT-trie: A Cache-conscious Trie-based Data Structure for Strings." (Askitis Nikolas and Sinha Ranjan, 2007) paper. For now, only the pure HAT-trie has been ...

Implementations of double-ended queue types, implemented by a ring buffer. Persistent hashed collections implementing Compressed Hash-Array Mapped Prefix Trees (CHAMP). These are like Set and ...

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Seventy years after the invention of a data structure called a hash table, theoreticians have found the most efficient possible configuration for it. About 70 years ago, an engineer at IBM named Hans ...