No trees in the stdlib?

Paul Rubin http
Wed Jul 1 04:43:49 EDT 2009


Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> writes:
> > With O(n) insertions and removals, though.  A decent self-balancing
> > binary tree will generally do those in O(log n).
> 
> For values of n below, say, a million, would you even notice the difference 
> on modern hardware?

Huh?  Yes, of course you'd notice, unless you were doing the operation
just once or something like that.



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