I was reading the article from Steve Yegge about singletons. In it he mentions his teacher told him AVL Trees were evil. Is it just that red and black trees are a better solution?
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I was reading the article from Steve Yegge about singletons. In it he mentions his teacher told him AVL Trees were evil. Is it just that red and black trees are a better solution?
Evil from what point of view?
Like always: there are no bad tools, only bad craftsmen.
In my memory, AVL trees have slower insertion/removal but faster retrieval than Red/black. Mainly because of the balance algorithm.