How is the Library of Babel website isn’t lagging like crazy?
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The secret of the site is very simple: when you go to the site, it asks you to pick a hexagonal chamber: each given a “code” of digits and letters. You may notice, that the maximum length of the name is 3200 characters. That’s exactly the size of one page!
So when you select a “hexagonal chamber”, you actually type a page of text! All books in the chamber are just some smart (but reversible) letter substitutions of that page.
When you use “search” function, it doesn’t search anything – it creates a page with a content you want, and then uses reverse substitution to get a “chamber code”.
Doing a substitution on 3200 characters is not a problem for a computer.
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