Strings are a difficult data type in database management systems. They come with variable sizes, considerable memory footprints, and incur high I/O costs. To mitigate these performance penalties, String Dictionary Encoding (DE) is frequently employed.

Duchess is a simple chess engine, and was my excuse to play with Rust.

Java is far from perfect, but it is at the very least a safe choice when it comes to be productive on medium/large projects. So yes. I do use Java in most cases, especially at work. But I still like to have the option to use the right tool for the right job.

(UPDATE: The procedure described in this post is no longer viable due to the restrictions Facebook has imposed to the use of its Graph API.)