Efficient query processing is underpinned by the design and implementation of novel data structures and algorithms that address the increasing demands of modern data-intensive applications. Recent ...

The Burrows-Wheeler transform is a string transformation algorithm invented by British computer scientists Mike Burrows and David Wheeler, and is used in compression algorithms, etc. Google has ...

At first, string processing might seem very hard to optimize. If you’re looking for a newline in some text, you have to check every character in the string against every type of newline, right?

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