2023/06/05/spreadsheet-insert-delete

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Making Spreadsheet Snapshots work with Insert and Delete

When you’re implementing a cloud spreadsheet, it’s tempting to think of it as just another kind of database. Each row of the spreadsheet is equivalent to a row in a database. Each column in the spreadsheet is equivalent to a column in a database. Yes, spreadsheets don’t have schemas. Yes, spreads...

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[timwiegand]

I updated the "Inverting a transform" section in this commit.

I realized that you can invert tranforms on the fly, even as you do a binary chop over the original. There's no need to create a complete inverse transform and then worry about how to store or cache it.