ChristianKl comments on The rational way to name rivers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 09 August 2014 10:54:40PM 0 points [-]

Local database lookups are very fast I don't see how speed on a client side browser plugin would be an issue.

Fast enough that you can do a few hundred of them per page? (Not rhetorical; I don't know.)

Textspeak substitution wouldn't actually be a problem; I don't know why I thought otherwise. And back-conversion to Latin would just require brute-forcing words that don't show up in the dictionary.

Comment author: ChristianKl 10 August 2014 12:05:42AM 0 points [-]

Fast enough that you can do a few hundred of them per page? (Not rhetorical; I don't know.)

Yes, select queries don't take much time when you have an index. Thank Moore's law.