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Because all selected compactions increase the density of the resulting sstables, work done for any compaction configuration is also useful and treated as such by other configurations, which makes it possible to switch to a different configuration without losing the advantage of all prior work done. This includes switching from legacy STCS or LCS.

Further documentation of the current state of the proposal can be found in its documentation in the WIP implementation branch.

New or Changed Public Interfaces

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