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In fsst, can the compressed string be used instead of the original string for comparison? #3

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zeminzhou opened this issue Jul 30, 2021 · 1 comment
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In fsst, can the compressed string be used instead of the original string for comparison? #3

zeminzhou opened this issue Jul 30, 2021 · 1 comment

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yes, for equality comparison you can compare two FSST compressed strings. With normal C++ string comparison, or even with strcmp() in C using FSST-0-terminated mode. Note that this only works if you used the same dictionary to compress both strings, of course.

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