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cloudflare / bm

bm

A Golang implementation of Bentley/McIlroy long string compression

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
119GitHub stars
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What it is

A Golang implementation of Bentley/McIlroy long string compression

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:59:58 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2013-12-19 16:48:23 UTC to 2013-12-19 18:23:09 UTC.

012013-12-19 16:00:00 UTC to 2013-12-19 17:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsDec 19, 16:002013-12-19 17:00:00 UTC to 2013-12-19 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsDec 19, 17:002013-12-19 18:00:00 UTC to 2013-12-19 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 19, 18:00

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Dec 19, 16:002013-12-19 16:00:00 UTC2013-12-19 17:00:00 UTC110
Dec 19, 17:002013-12-19 17:00:00 UTC2013-12-19 18:00:00 UTC000
Dec 19, 18:002013-12-19 18:00:00 UTC2013-12-19 19:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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A mix of lint-y and style problems, and over-use of named returned parameters. https://github.com/cloudflare/bm/blob/master/src/bm/bm.go#L4... -- comment block should start with Dictionary. https://github.com/cloudflare/bm/blob/master/src/bm/bm.go#L5... -- comment should precede the declaration. https://github.com/cloudflare/bm/blob/master/src/bm/bm.go#L6... and others -- spurious newlines https://github.com/cloudflare/bm/blob/master/src/bm/bm.go#L7... -- needless named return parameters https://github.com/cloudflare/bm/blob/master/src/bm/bm.go#L1... https://github.com/cloudflare/bm/blob/master/src/bm/bm.go#L1... https://github.com/cloudflare/bm/blob/master/src/bm/bm.go#L2... (many others) -- prefer early return or continue over if/else https://github.com/cloudflare/bm/blob/master/src/bm/bm.go#L1... -- more boilerplate due to the needless
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decision to use named return params
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