[squeak-dev] Re: SkipList

Maurice Rabb m3rabb at uiuc.edu
Thu Mar 27 22:03:35 UTC 2008


While SkipLists have many wonderful properties, they are needlessly  
complication for simple a sorted list.  I would vote for  
SortedCollection to remain uncomplicated.  Perhaps SkipLists can be  
removed into a separate package.

-Maurice

On Mar 27, 2008, at 16:50 , Matthew Fulmer wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:15:49PM +0100, nicolas cellier wrote:
>> The fact that SkipList does not raise great interest is a good  
>> clue...
>> Anyone to disagree that it is a good candidate for removal from  
>> Kernel?
>> (like what happened to MappedCollection).
>
> Looking at what it is, perhaps it should be merged into
> SortedCollection
>
> -- 
> Matthew Fulmer -- http://mtfulmer.wordpress.com/
>




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