Hash trees are super efficient when they’re not nearly full. So the standard trick is just to resize them when they’re too close to capacity.

The new approach is probably only going to be useful in highly memory constrained applications, where resizing isn’t an option.

Wasting other people’s time.

If you want to use an LLM that’s fine, but if you’re cutting and pasting it into a discussion you should warn other people that it’s not human generated.

And most of it isn’t wrong, it’s just a giant wall of text that’s largely irrelevant to the conversation.

As a heads up, the person you’re arguing with seems to be using an LLM to generate text.

I would down vote and move on. It’s not a real discussion.

And if your grandmother had wheels she would be a bicycle.