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- From: geert@cs.ruu.nl (Geert-Jan Giezeman)
- Subject: Re: Why Are Red-Black Trees Obscure?
- Sender: network-news@cs.ruu.nl
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.111422.22884@cs.ruu.nl>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 11:14:22 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.183817.7371@reed.edu>
- Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science
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- In <1992Aug26.183817.7371@reed.edu> orpheus@reed.edu (P. Hawthorne) writes:
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- >Sedgewick, for the chapter on balanced trees in his book "Algorithms," uses
- >the red-black tree. As a data structure, the red-black tree seems simple
- >and well balanced. He convincingly suggests that they are better than AVL
- >trees and yet, I've never seen them mentioned by anyone else. Why not?
- >
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- Perhaps obscure, but not unused. For example the public domain library LEDA
- uses red-black trees for the implementation of dictionaries.
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