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Reddit: Lessons Learned From Scaling To 1 Billion ...
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.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
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That makes sense. Thanks.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter