Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 25 May 2002 14:09:28 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_map.c vm_map.h
Message-ID:  <20020525140714.O3212-100000@patrocles.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020525043853.GG22588@cs.rice.edu>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

On Fri, 24 May 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:22:49PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
> >
> > I believe they were invented by Danny Sleator at CMU a fair while ago as
> > part of his work on amortized analysis.  Other related and interesting
> > structures are skip lists, and so on.  Any decent algorithms text should
> > discuss these in detail, and the pertinent details of amortized analysis.
> >
>
> Should, but don't.  Most notably the very popular "Introduction to
> Algorithms" by Cormen, Leiserson, and Rivest doesn't.  Knuth's books
> are too old.  Sedgewick describes them but doesn't do the analysis.
> The best reference that I can suggest is any one of several related
> books by Weiss, in particular, his latest data structures in Java
> book.  It describes both the algorithm and the analysis.
>
> Alan

I picked up Intro to Algorithms last summer because I thought it would
teach me about many neat algorithms.  I was disappointed to find out that
the authors tend to focus more on proofs of a small number.

I haven't read any of the Knuth books, I'll probably get around to that
one of these days.  Thanks for the pointer to the Weiss books, I'll see if
I can find some of those as well.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020525140714.O3212-100000>