Lexicon Titan: Solving the O(n!) Problem with Web Workers and Bitmasking
Engineering a High-Performance Word Intelligence Suite Most "word unscramblers" on the web today are... let's be honest, pretty clunky. They either rely on heavy server-side processing that lags, or they try to run heavy permutations on the main UI thread, resulting in that dreaded "Page Unresponsive" popup. When I started building Lexicon Titan , I had one goal: Zero-latency word processing on the edge. 🛠 The Technical Challenge: Beating the Permutation Trap The naive approach to unscrambling letters is generating all possible permutations. For a 7-letter word, that's 5,040 combinations. Easy. But for 15 letters? That's 1.3 trillion combinations. To solve this for Lexicon Titan , I moved away from permutations and implemented a Frequency Distribution Bitmask . Instead of "shuffling" letters, the engine creates a character map of your input and does a single-pass filter over a 370k-word dictionary. The Multithreaded Edge Even with an optimized algorithm, running this logic on the main
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