Chapter 14 Red–Black Trees and Splay Trees | 14.51
14.5 APPLICATIONS
In all the applications in which binary search trees are used, red–black trees can also be used because they are
derived from B trees of order 4, a variant of binary search trees. In Java and C++, the library map structures
are implemented with a red–black tree.
Splay trees are the self-adjusting binary search trees. Due to caching e ect of the splay trees the recently
accessed elements have better access times than that of the less frequently accessed elements. ey are best
suitable for the applications in which the recently accessed information is very likely to be accessed in the near
future. e slay trees are typically used in caches and memory allocators. Other ...
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