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Re:The Intuitive Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms by Dylan16807 on Saturday October 14, 2017 @12:54AM (#15470847)
> (Pet example: if you designed websites as data structures and the browser to support doing so efficiently, 90% of requests on a site like Reddit would be a single `memcpy`.)

You'd still want a compressed form, even if you had a good way to bypass parsing.

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Re:The Intuitive Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms by Veedrac on Saturday October 14, 2017 @08:14AM (#15471815)
Ah, yes, I botched that description, since there has to be more to support things like encryption. A more accurate claim is that the bulk of the work currently done would be replaced with a memcpy.
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