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		Cakez0r on March 1, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% It's not a premature optimisation to use a hashset instead of a list though!

ufo on March 1, 2021 [–]

The bug is more devious than that. The code looks linear at a glance and the culprit is that sscanf is actually O(N) on the length of the string. How many people would expect that?

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