Re: Skip List for GLIB



On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 11:03 -0500, Eric Vander Weele wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> Before I started working on this, I wanted to bounce the idea of
> adding a skip list -- GSkipList.  It shouldn't be that more
> complicated than the balanced binary tree implementation and the test
> driver for a skip list would almost be the same as the the one for the
> balanced binary tree.

What would be the advantage over GSequence (which internally uses a
balanced binary tree)? Would you implement a deterministic (which of the
many variants?) or probabilistic skip list (would you expose the level
selection probability to allow slower but less memory hungry
skiplists?)?

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