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		ur-whale on Oct 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fast B-Trees Unless I'm missing something, title of the article doesn't really correlate with its conclusion.

dpatterbee on Oct 7, 2024 [–]

The title of the article is "Smolderingly fast b-trees". Smoldering is (sorta) an antonym of blazing. Blazingly fast means very fast, smolderingly fast would therefore mean not very fast.

hinkley on Oct 8, 2024 | [–]

Smoldering has other connotations though, which still imply attractiveness.

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