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Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures
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Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures

by Marcello La Rocca
July 2021
Intermediate to advanced
768 pages
25h 23m
English
Manning Publications
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5 Disjoint sets: Sub-linear time processing

This chapter covers

  • Solving the problem of keeping a set partitioned into disjoint sets and merging partitions dynamically
  • Describing an API for a data structure for disjoint sets
  • Providing a simple linear-time solution for all methods
  • Improving the running time by using the right underlying data structure
  • Adding easy-to-implement heuristics to get quasi-constant running time
  • Recognizing use cases where the best solution is needed for performance

In this chapter we are going to introduce a problem that seems quite trivial—so trivial that many developers wouldn’t even consider it worth a performance analysis, so they’d just implement the obvious solution to it. Nevertheless, if the expression “wolf ...

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