I wonder if the founders realise that "dolt" is slang for a "stupid person"?
I really wonder what the memory overhead of the prolly tree is.
Using hashes as links isn't cheap especially with sha-512 wide hashes (I think they use 20bytes in reality?). I'd estimate their fanout at between 50-200, which isn't that much either.
So my feeling is expensive nodes, combined with low-ish fanout => high cost of storage?
This is from 2022. It is based on Noms [1], which is no longer maintained (they forked it).
I think the Noms doc linked from this article [2] is clearer than the article itself. That said I sill cannot turn my head around to grasp how this entire thing work tbh. I hope they wrote a peer reviewed paper to serve the audience better.
[1] https://github.com/attic-labs/
[2] https://github.com/attic-labs/noms/blob/master/doc/intro.md#...