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Any idea why the prefix tree is faster than the inverted index? #7

Open LeaVerou opened 9 years ago

LeaVerou commented 9 years ago

E.g. search for “wait”. Huge, huge difference (11ms vs 77ms for a 0.5% subset of tweets). Shouldn't it be the other way around?