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CountingBloom: counters can overflow #20

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thomasmueller opened this issue Dec 27, 2019 · 0 comments
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CountingBloom: counters can overflow #20

thomasmueller opened this issue Dec 27, 2019 · 0 comments

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There is a risk of counter overflow in CountingBloom. Currently, it is detected and an exception is thrown (UnsupportedOperationException), but this isn't a great solution:

  • currently the updated counts are not decremented
  • the probability of such overflows should be documented
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