> However the new Succinct Trie ends up being disturbingly slow (taking about 5.5ms to look up a word in Node.js on a fast machine) Ouch! A succinct trie I imp

> However the new Succinct Trie ends up being disturbingly slow (taking about 5.5ms to look up a word in Node.js on a fast machine) Ouch! A succinct trie I implemented in C++ took 2-3 microseconds for lookups. I guess Javascript is not the best language for low-level data structures engineering.