That just means you never have the need for implementing a querying or search functionality. Range query and search are used everywhere and need ordered maps.
I'm not saying we should rush to adopt it right the way, but at least don't dismiss it hastily. It has some novel ideas to advance the art.
What novel ideas did you see here? To me this looks like a standard 16-way compressed trie. The node encoding is quite natural if you consider the limitation of 64M entries (which is really not a lot). Did I miss something?
I'm not saying we should rush to adopt it right the way, but at least don't dismiss it hastily. It has some novel ideas to advance the art.