thin heaps

[Matthias Walter]

On 12/20/2010 05:01 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Just saw this:
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> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/eoq15/implementing_shortest_path_in_c_is_much_easier/
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> in which a reader points to this paper on thin heaps:
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> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr04/cos423/handouts/thin%20heap.pdf
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> Does anyone here have experience with thin heaps? I think they'd be a
> good addition to std.container.
You might have realized my recent interest in std.container.BinHeap as a
priority queue. In fact I thought about implementing Fibonacci Heaps
with the same interface for D. I worked on a C++ implementation a while
ago, so maybe I should give the Thin Heaps a try?

Matthias