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Practical performance of Bloom filters and parallel free-text searching

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Bloom filter technique of hashing finds several applications, such as in efficient maintenance of differential files, space efficient storage of dictionaries, and parallel free-text searching. The performance of hash transformations with reference to the filter error rate is the focus of this article.

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