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Adding large number of books to Calibre got signifficantly faster. Thank you Kovid
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11-14-2014, 09:49 PM
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The improvement comes mainly from changing the algorithm to detect duplicates from an O(n) to an O(1) implementation (using a hash table). And making the detection use multiple processor cores.
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