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Golomb-coded sets: smaller than Bloom filters

04 Sep

Posted by: Giovanni Bajo in: C++, Optimizations, Python

While reading the super-interesting Imperial Violet, Adam Langley’s weblog, I stumbled upon a new data structure that I had never heard of: the Golomb-coded sets (GCS). It is a probabilistic data structure conceptually similar to the famous Bloom filters, but with a more compact in-memory representation, and a slower query time.

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ctypes support in PyInstaller

19 Mar

Posted by: Giovanni Bajo in: Python

Do you want to see how PyInstaller magically handles usages of ctypes, whilst py2exe/py2app would simply fail? Follow me in this in-depth tutorial! PyInstaller comprises many advanced features to make your life easier when packaging a Python program. In my opinion, its main advantage over py2exe/py2app (besides the obvious fact that it is a multi-platform [...]

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