A trie shares storage and traversal for prefixes#
c
└─ a
├─ r
└─ tTraversing ca reaches candidates beneath that node without scanning unrelated keys. Yet a plain in-memory trie of every historical query may consume substantial memory and says nothing about ranking or distributed updates.
- Calling the trie the entire autocomplete architecture.
- Ignoring popularity metadata and result limits.
- Assuming one machine can hold and update every locale.
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