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What are Bloom filters, and why are they useful?

14 points by aogl 8y ago

kristianp 8y ago
So why does WebKit use a counting bloom filter to reject CSS? Anyone know the use case for that?
- aogl 8y ago
  I'm not entirely sure, but it would be interesting to read this bug report from mozilla as some what of a follow on for anyone trying to answer this: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53880 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53880