You Don’t Always Need Indexes.
Sometimes you have a lot of data, and one approach to support quick searches is pre-processing it to build an index so a search can involve only looking at a small fraction of the total data. The threshold at which it’s worth switching to indexing, though, might be higher than you’d guess. Here are some cases I’ve worked on where full scans were better engineering choices: Ten years ago I wrot
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