> As others have noted, and as I implied in my comment, there is in fact existing literature that captures the particular ideas and tradeoffs in this implementa

> As others have noted, and as I implied in my comment, there is in fact existing literature that captures the particular ideas and tradeoffs in this implementation - Tiered Vectors. I believe the author has a duty to cite that up front and prominently in the spirit of honest academic discourse. What "academic discourse"? This is a datastructure implementation with some documentation in a Github repo, not a submission to a scientific journal. You're insinuating a level of rigor that is completely unwarranted. Just lean back, relax, and accept that you overreacted a bit in your original post. It's not the end of the world to admit that.