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- From: smoore@dartmouth.edu (Sean Moore)
- Newsgroups: comp.programming
- Subject: Re: Why Are Red-Black Trees Obscure?
- Message-ID: <SMOORE.92Aug27080313@chocorua.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 12:03:13 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.183817.7371@reed.edu>
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- Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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- In-Reply-To: orpheus@reed.edu's message of 26 Aug 92 18:38:17 GMT
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- In article <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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- > Theus (orpheus@reed.edu)
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- Red-Black trees are discussed extensively in "Algorithms", by Cormen,
- Lieserson, and Rivest.
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- - Sean Moore
- Computer Science
- Dartmouth College
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