Re: AVL trees vs. Red-Black trees

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 28 Nov 1999 14:45:03 +0100

Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> > If somebody find this interesting I can provide a patch to add the
> > include/linux/rbtree.h and lib/rbtree.c that will provde rbtree support.
>
> I'd like to take a look at this, I've been looking at putting some more
> uniform tree structures in the kernel (post 2.4).

fwiw, I did a splay tree (aka. self-adjusting tree) for similar reasons
that anyone is welcome to take a peek at. The self-adjusting property
should theoretically provide cache-like behaviour when most of the
lookups are to relatively few nodes in the tree. The downside is that
the tree is modified by lookups.

-- Jamie

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