in reply to Re^5: Why Boyer-Moore, Horspool, alpha-skip et.al don't work for bit strings. (And is there an alternative that does?)
in thread Why Boyer-Moore, Horspool, alpha-skip et.al don't work for bit strings. (And is there an alternative that does?)

the shift is basically giving you string needles that represent all of the alignments possible.
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