Fast and Simple Computations Using Prefix Tables Under Hamming and Edit Distance

In this article, we introduce a new and simple data structure, the prefix table under Hamming distance, and present two algorithms to compute it efficiently: one asymptotically fast; the other very fast on average and in practice. Because the latter approach avoids the computation of global data structures, such as the suffix array and the longest common prefix array, it yields algorithms much faster in practice than existing methods. We show …