A Bloom filter is a fast and space-efficient probabilistic data structure used to test set membership. A membership test returns either ”likely member” or ”definitely not a member”.

Image by Robert Emperley, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Once you have installed Go, run this command to install the bloom package:

go get github.com/yourbasic/bloom

There is an online reference for the package at godoc.org/github.com/yourbasic/bloom.

• The API of this library is frozen.
• Version numbers adhere to semantic versioning.

The only accepted reason to modify the API of this package is to handle issues that can't be resolved in any other reasonable way.

Thanks to Sébastien Paolacci for his excellent MurmurHash implementation.

Stefan Nilsson – korthaj