Re: arca-vm-26

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 20:56:12 +0100 (CET)


On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Alan Mimms wrote:

> I do not wish to start a religious war about data structures. Have you considered
> the relatively new data structure called a 'skip list'? I have replaced several

Never heard about them.

> subsystems in our system at work that would have been ready candidates for AVL or
> RB trees (or any of a cast of thousands of others) with skiplists to very good
> effect in insertion, deletion and search speed. I would be happy to supply
> pointers if you're interested. The code is trivial compared to any other tree

Sure, I _am_ interested. Please give me pointers (on the web, I don't have
money for books ;).

> management scheme I know. Skiplists maintain balance and give O(log2 N)
> performance for insert, delete AND search. There are variants that have no

I'll tell you what I'll think when I'll know what them are.

Andrea Arcangeli

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