Depends on the randomness of the paths. With URLs coming from a limited set of websites - yes, there would be some savings.
With a set of random strings, for alphabet with 64 chars, there are 16M different 4 character prefixes, so the savings from overlapping prefixes for 128char long strings is likely less than 3%.
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Depends on the randomness of the paths. With URLs coming from a limited set of websites - yes, there would be some savings.
With a set of random strings, for alphabet with 64 chars, there are 16M different 4 character prefixes, so the savings from overlapping prefixes for 128char long strings is likely less than 3%.