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But you've missed the entire point, which is that normally the browser would have to run the slow check on the 1000 sites, now it only has to run the slow check
by corin_ 16y ago
But you've missed the entire point, which is that normally the browser would have to run the slow check on the 1000 sites, now it only has to run the slow check on 10 of them. That's a huge improvement, even if 9 of them turn out to be false positives.
- zck 16y agoI didn't emphasize that part of it, no; I was attempting to respond to only the part I quoted. I guess I should've tempered my original comment by saying that although the quote was incorrect, the Bloom filter overall is still a great help.
- vecter 16y agoYou're both right, and I'm pretty sure zck understands and appreciate the time savings that you're talking about. He's just pointing that the author's statement that "only malicious sites needed to be tested" is blatantly wrong.
- boucher 16y agoExcept, that's not what the author said. He said "practically" that.