Trees
Marko Rauhamaa
marko at pacujo.net
Tue Jan 20 04:45:54 EST 2015
Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>:
> Others have answered as to why other special-purpose
> constrained-structure trees have not been added to the stdlib.
Ordered O(log n) mappings are not special-purpose data structures. I'd
say strings and floats are much more special-purpose than ordered
mappings, and yet Python has direct support for those.
As I said, I use ordered mappings to implement timers. GvR uses the
heapq module for the purpose. The downside of heapq is that canceled
timers often flood the heapq structure; in networking you can easily
start a thousand timers a second but virtually no timer ever expires.
Python's asyncio ignores the problem, but GvR mentioned a periodic
"garbage collection" as a potentially effective solution. I tested the
garbage collection trick and it did seem very effective.
Marko
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