Re: [patch] rbtrees [was Re: AVL trees vs. Red-Black trees]

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Tue, 30 Nov 1999 15:14:07 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Kevin O'Connor wrote:

>[..] I've got inserts working, but
>removes are becoming a myriad of special cases..

removes are trivial with rbtrees as you never need to compare nodes. All
the rebalancing is done in function of the node color (that is a private
information of each node). The same is true also for the
insert-rebalancing, but to do an insert you must first browse the tree to
do a normal ordered O(log(n)) insert before calling the rebalance (thus a
compare semantic on elements is necessary for the insert operation to
work).

Andrea

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