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My concern regarding the `addPatterns()` implementation would be the case where that is called multiple times (say, batched 1M value sets of patterns), which would result in a merge between...

I've gone ahead and forked this repo to https://github.com/DigitalPath-Inc/quamina with my changes. I think the performance improvements are too narrow at this point, so I am not going to open...

Well, I've gone ahead and implemented prefix and equals-ignore-case with the new methodology, and they both see similar performance improvements, so I expect that it'll be possible to implement everything....

No worries, I've added in some comments, but should probably clean it up a bit more before trying to merge back, not to mention implementing support for `exists` and `anything-but`....

2. Yep, originally I was just using it to reduce the amount of stuff I had to understand, but with the deduping decided to leave it. The only other way...