RE: [RFC] - skiplists and link lists

Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@goop.org)
Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:51:37 -0700 (PDT)


On 28-Jul-99 merblich wrote:
> Group,
>
> At: http://www.medsp.com/scott/alg/node35.html
>
> has a implimentation and description of skip lists.
>
> On lists that can grow beyond a specific number of
> elements, I believe that the lists should then be
> converted to skip lists.
>
> I am slowly working on a generic implimentation of
> the above. Maybe by Sept timeframe...

Actually I've already got one, which I've been using experimentally on a few
kernel data structures. I haven't really measured what the performance effect
is yet, which is why I haven't mentioned it. Seems pretty stable though.

J

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