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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: binary trees implementation using file(s)
- Date: 1 Mar 1996 14:36:41 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <4h6pr9$nq4@charm.il.ft.hse.nl>, robert <robert@il.ft.hse.nl> wrote:
- >For a (possible) project, I want to use a binary search tree implemented
- >using files. I have a pretty good idea already about how to implement
- >it, but was wondering if something similar has already been done (if so,
- >I would appreciate some pointers (...) as to where to find code).
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- I vaguely recollect that a freeware database toolkit called Metalbase used AVL
- trees as the access method. It was later reworked into something called
- Diamondbase. The former is C and the latter has a C++ interface, I believe.
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- It's unusual to see binary trees used like this, since the B+tree or hashing
- methods are prevalent in databases.
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