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> 57% better for cases where the data is small

You don't optimize things for the cases when they are fast. (Unless the gain is a couple of orders of magnitude; certainly not for a 50% speedup.)

The 15% gain is the one that matters. On practice, it comes at the expense of a more complex (thus larger, negating some of it) and less reliable system. It is very rare that this trade-off is worth it.




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