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Re: Balanced trees

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Date 2014-03-13 20:12 -0700
Subject Re: Balanced trees
From Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.8142.1394766770.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:34:48 +0200, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>
>>> With a high level language like Python, using the provided hash table
>>> will almost always cream any hand-built tree, no matter how
>>> advantageous the data is to the tree.
>>
>> The main thing is there are use cases where order is essential. That's
>> why I have had to implement the AVL tree in Python myself.
>
> from collections import OrderedDict
>
> gives you a fast, ordered mapping. In this case, the order is that of
> insertion order. If you want sort order instead, for "small" amounts of
> data, say below a million or ten million items, you're likely to have
> acceptable if not superior results by just sorting them items when and as
> needed.

This is one of my pet things.

Sorting the same (slightly tweaked) data inside of a tight loop is
rarely a good idea - despite the fact that the "sort" itself tends to
be O(n) with Python's rather awesome builtin sorting algorithm.  This
is because sorting inside a loop tends to yield O(n^2) algorithms, or
even O((n^2)*logn).

But if you're sorting once at the end of whatever other processing,
sorting is great.  It's (still) O(nlogn), but it's got a terrific
constant.

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Re: Tuples and immutability Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-07 09:33 +0000
  Re: Tuples and immutability Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-03-07 22:04 +1100
  Re: Tuples and immutability Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-07 22:11 +1100
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        Re: Balanced trees (was: Re: Tuples and immutability) Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-03-08 04:03 -0700
          Re: Balanced trees Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-08 13:26 +0200
        Re: Balanced trees (was: Re: Tuples and immutability) Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-03-08 11:58 -0800
        Re: Balanced trees Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-03-08 20:37 +0000
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            Re: Balanced trees Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-03-08 17:31 -0800
              Re: Balanced trees Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-09 11:27 +0200
                Re: Balanced trees Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-03-09 14:20 -0700
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                Re: Balanced trees Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-11 03:24 +1100
                Re: Balanced trees Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-10 19:08 +0200
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                Re: Balanced trees Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-10 19:34 +0200
                Re: Balanced trees Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-03-13 12:40 -0600
                Re: Balanced trees Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-13 23:57 +0000
                Re: Balanced trees Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-03-13 20:12 -0700
                Re: Balanced trees Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-14 05:02 +0000
                Re: Balanced trees Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-03-10 19:24 -0400
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                Re: Balanced trees Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-11 01:26 +0000
                Re: Balanced trees Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-11 12:45 +1100
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