If you've been following along with my latest series of posts, then welcome to part four of my journey to compile a high level language to my virtual stack machine.
In the early days of computing, before the time of standardized instruction sets - or standardized anything really - software was decidedly non-portable. If you wrote a piece of software on machine A, it more than likely would
Along with arrays and lists, trees are the one of the most fundamental data structures in computer science, if not THE fundamental structure. There are many, many different tree-based data structures tailored to all sorts of use cases.
In a previous article on quicksort, I called it a fast sorting algorithm with an achilles heal: for certain inputs quicksort slows waaaaaay down. This is quite unfortunate, because on most inputs quicksort is very fast.
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Parsing Lisp: From Data To Code
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Swiz Heaps: A deterministic modification of Randomized Meldable Heaps
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Let's talk Eval/Apply
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BST Deletion: Removal By Merge
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Dictionary Based Compression: The LZW Algorithm
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Taking Action: Compiling Procedures to P-Code
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Making Decisions: Compiling If Statements to P-Code
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Repeating yourself: Compiling While Loops to P-Code
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Removing an entry from a B+ Tree without Rebalancing: A viable approach?
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Implementing An Iterator for In-Memory B-Trees