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Re: Wanted: List of intervals

From Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject Re: Wanted: List of intervals
Date 2017-02-17 12:10 +0000
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On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 03:30:13 +0000, Volker Borchert wrote:

> Shouldn't that be log(n)? sqrt(8000000) is about 2800...
>
Yes. Its been a while (1999): I translated the red-black tree code in 
Sedgewick's "Algorithms" into C and implemented it initially on an 
Alphaserver. It ran successfully pretty much straight away. There were 
about 100 million items in the tree. Keys were numeric strings averaging 
10 chars long and we were managing 25,000 - 30,000 lookups/sec. Misses 
were added to the tree as they ocurred.

This used my own code due to features of DEC Unix, which had a Mach-based 
micro-kernel. The library red-black tree code ran like a dog with a 
wooden leg, never exceeding around 1200 lookups/sec because it held the 
tree structure pointers, user data and key separately, so it needed 3 
mallocs for each node stored. The Mach kernel serialised user process 
memory management because there was only a single copy of the memory 
management code. So, I implemented my own memory management (grabbed a 
1MB chunk. Subsequent requests doubled in size until the chunks hit 
16MB), which gave us the speedup we needed by minimising memory 
management calls by a very large factor: evidently the default heap 
extension size was relatively small for this strategy to work as well as 
it did.
  
>>   You'd probably beat even that by walking the tree with two pointers
>>   and doing the concatenation as you read the data out of it. Its quite
>>   possible that this may be the fastest solution for a large data set.
> 
> Yes. This is one possible solution I've been thinking of. And since I'm
> probably not the first one with this sort of problem, I hoped someone
> else has published an implementation. A red/black tree is too easy to
> get wrong for me being keen on doing it myself.
>
No need of that: the TreeMap class is based on a red-black tree.


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Wanted: List of intervals v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2017-02-16 21:13 +0000
  Re: Wanted: List of intervals Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-02-16 17:11 -0500
    Re: Wanted: List of intervals v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2017-02-17 02:49 +0000
      Re: Wanted: List of intervals Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-02-16 22:32 -0500
        Re: Wanted: List of intervals v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2017-02-18 07:28 +0000
        Re: Wanted: List of intervals Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2017-02-19 20:02 +0100
          Re: Wanted: List of intervals Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-02-19 17:13 -0500
            Re: Wanted: List of intervals Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-02-19 17:18 -0500
              Re: Wanted: List of intervals Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2017-02-19 23:31 +0100
                Re: Wanted: List of intervals Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-02-19 23:00 -0500
                Re: Wanted: List of intervals Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-02-19 23:09 -0500
              Re: Wanted: List of intervals Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-02-19 22:52 -0500
                Re: Wanted: List of intervals Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-02-20 07:47 -0500
                Re: Wanted: List of intervals Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2017-02-20 13:30 +0000
                Re: Wanted: List of intervals Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-02-20 08:51 -0500
  Re: Wanted: List of intervals Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2017-02-16 23:18 +0100
    Re: Wanted: List of intervals v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2017-02-17 02:54 +0000
  Re: Wanted: List of intervals Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2017-02-16 23:58 +0000
    Re: Wanted: List of intervals v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2017-02-17 03:30 +0000
      Re: Wanted: List of intervals Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2017-02-17 12:10 +0000
        Re: Wanted: List of intervals v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2017-02-18 08:06 +0000
          Re: Wanted: List of intervals Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2017-02-18 13:18 +0000
            Re: Wanted: List of intervals v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2017-02-18 19:58 +0000
              Re: Wanted: List of intervals Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2017-02-18 20:45 +0000
              Re: Wanted: List of intervals Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-02-19 10:57 -0500
                Re: Wanted: List of intervals Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2017-02-19 17:36 +0000
  Re: Wanted: List of intervals a.laforgia@gmail.com - 2017-02-17 03:13 -0800
  Re: Wanted: List of intervals Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-02-17 08:20 -0500
  Re: Wanted: List of intervals Roedy Green <inquiry@mindprod.com> - 2017-03-08 01:30 -0800
    Re: Wanted: List of intervals v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2017-03-09 19:32 +0000
      Re: Wanted: List of intervals Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2017-03-09 23:05 +0000
        Re: Wanted: List of intervals v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2017-03-11 01:40 +0000
          Re: Wanted: List of intervals Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2017-03-11 12:39 +0000
            Re: Wanted: List of intervals v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2017-03-11 18:15 +0000
              Re: Wanted: List of intervals Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2017-03-11 21:47 +0000

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