Well, It appears January is the month of the Red/Black tree, because here I am with yet more Red/Black tree content! Since their introduction in 1978[1] the study of red/black trees generally focused on their isomorphism with 2-3-4 trees. And, while it

On my shelf I have books by no less than 7 different authors that contain sections on implementing Red/Black Tree's. Almost all of them begin with an introduction to 2-3-4 tree's. In addition, almost all of them detail algorithms that restructure the t

Two Posts on Iterators in a row? I know, I know. But at the risk of sounding like some kind of evangelist: If you're going to insist on implementing your own containers, you must implement iterators for them. I won't repeat my entire diatribe on the