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As far as I understand, since user most likely voted only on a small subset of those 100 comments (say 3) and negative lookups are very fast because of bloom filters [1], therefore all lookups combined are fast.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter



That makes sense. Thanks.




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