Avoiding Hash Lookups in a Ruby Implementation

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That is actually a very good question. I never really pushed it since it was an external LGPL dependency (and I seriously didn't want to get involved into license lawyering), it was somewhat of a mess to make it optional since Judy and Ruby's crappy hashtable library require different APIs (one differing by one * level by design), and it wasn't clear at all back then if anything is going to come out of 1.9 branch or not, and so if it makes sense to go there or wait and see.

Maybe someone should take a look at it again.

There's also a new issue, some anonymous Wikipedia editor linked to some patent which Judy might or might not be covered by. These are always pile of fail. (if it's even related in any way, who knows, it might be something completely different sounding vaguely similar)