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Show HN: Roaring Bitmaps for Ruby

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Post by yams91 » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 5:36 PM UTC

A native extension in Rust to bring roaring bitmaps to Ruby. Feedback appreciated

Re: Show HN: Roaring Bitmaps for Ruby

Post by slater » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 5:39 PM UTC

What are roaring bitmaps?

Post by yams91 » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 5:41 PM UTC

slater wrote: post #2

What are roaring bitmaps?

They are a kind of compressed bitmap. The about page here does a better job explaining than I ever could: http://roaringbitmap.org/about/