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gb_trees General balanced trees.

This module provides Prof. Arne Andersson's General Balanced Trees. These have no storage overhead compared to unbalanced binary trees, and their performance is better than AVL trees.

This module considers two keys as different if and only if they do not compare equal (==).

Data Structure {Size, Tree}

Tree is composed of nodes of the form {Key, Value, Smaller, Bigger} and the "empty tree" node nil.

There is no attempt to balance trees after deletions. As deletions do not increase the height of a tree, this should be OK.

The original balance condition h(T) <= ceil(c * log(|T|)) has been changed to the similar (but not quite equivalent) condition 2 ^ h(T) <= |T| ^ c. This should also be OK.

A general balanced tree.

A general balanced tree iterator.

Rebalance a tree.

Rebalances Tree1. Notice that this is rarely necessary, but can be motivated when many nodes have been deleted from the tree without further insertions. Rebalancing can then be forced to minimize lookup times, as deletion does not rebalance the tree.

Remove a node from a tree.

Removes the node with key Key from Tree1 and returns the new tree. Assumes that the key is present in the tree, crashes otherwise.

Remove a (possibly non-existing) node from a tree.

Removes the node with key Key from Tree1 if the key is present in the tree, otherwise does nothing. Returns the new tree.

Returns a value and new tree without node with key Key.

Returns a value Value from node with key Key and new Tree2 without the node with this value. Assumes that the node with key is present in the tree, crashes otherwise.

Returns a value and new tree without node with key Key.

Returns a value Value from node with key Key and new Tree2 without the node with this value. Returns error if the node with the key is not present in the tree.

Return an empty tree.

Returns a new empty tree.

Insert or update key with value in a tree.

Inserts Key with value Value into Tree1 if the key is not present in the tree, otherwise updates Key to value Value in Tree1. Returns the new tree.

Make a tree from an orddict.

Turns an ordered list List of key-value tuples into a tree. The list must not contain duplicate keys.

Look up a key in a tree, if present.

Retrieves the value stored with Key in Tree. Assumes that the key is present in the tree, crashes otherwise.

Insert a new key and value in a tree.

Inserts Key with value Value into Tree1 and returns the new tree. Assumes that the key is not present in the tree, crashes otherwise.

Test for membership of a tree.

Returns true if Key is present in Tree, otherwise false.

Test for empty tree.

Returns true if Tree is an empty tree, othwewise false.

Return an iterator for a tree.

Returns an iterator that can be used for traversing the entries of Tree; see next/1. The implementation of this is very efficient; traversing the whole tree using next/1 is only slightly slower than getting the list of all elements using to_list/1 and traversing that. The main advantage of the iterator approach is that it does not require the complete list of all elements to be built in memory at one time.

Return an iterator for a tree starting from a specified key.

Returns an iterator that can be used for traversing the entries of Tree; see next/1. The difference as compared to the iterator returned by iterator/1 is that the first key greater than or equal to Key is returned.

Return a list of the keys in a tree.

Returns the keys in Tree as an ordered list.

Return largest key and value.

Returns {Key, Value}, where Key is the largest key in Tree, and Value is the value associated with this key. Assumes that the tree is not empty.

Look up a key in a tree.

Looks up Key in Tree. Returns {value, Value}, or none if Key is not present.

Return largest key and value.

Maps function F(K, V1) -> V2 to all key-value pairs of tree Tree1. Returns a new tree Tree2 with the same set of keys as Tree1 and the new set of values V2.

Traverse a tree with an iterator.

Returns {Key, Value, Iter2}, where Key is the smallest key referred to by iterator Iter1, and Iter2 is the new iterator to be used for traversing the remaining nodes, or the atom none if no nodes remain.

Return the number of nodes in a tree.

Returns the number of nodes in Tree.

Return smallest key and value.

Returns {Key, Value}, where Key is the smallest key in Tree, and Value is the value associated with this key. Assumes that the tree is not empty.

Extract largest key and value.

Returns {Key, Value, Tree2}, where Key is the largest key in Tree1, Value is the value associated with this key, and Tree2 is this tree with the corresponding node deleted. Assumes that the tree is not empty.

Extract smallest key and value.

Returns {Key, Value, Tree2}, where Key is the smallest key in Tree1, Value is the value associated with this key, and Tree2 is this tree with the corresponding node deleted. Assumes that the tree is not empty.

Convert a tree into a list.

Converts a tree into an ordered list of key-value tuples.

Update a key to new value in a tree.

Updates Key to value Value in Tree1 and returns the new tree. Assumes that the key is present in the tree.

Return a list of the values in a tree.

Returns the values in Tree as an ordered list, sorted by their corresponding keys. Duplicates are not removed.

See Also

dict(3), gb_sets(3)