See the comments for an explanation of how properties are stored.
The trie structure is designed to scale better than the previous
array-based implementation. Searching an array with n properties
required average O(n) string compares of the entire key; searching the
trie requires average O(log n) string compares of each token (substrings
between '.' characters).
Change-Id: I491305bc7aca59609abcd871a5f33d97f89ce714
Signed-off-by: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>
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