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shadow merge insert

(algorithm)

Definition: An algorithm to insert a new node into a shadow heap. The new node is placed in the unordered table. When the table grows beyond some threshold size, table nodes and all their parents are reordered so everything is a heap.

See also shadow merge.

Note: If the threshold size is O(log n), where n is the size of the heap, insertion is O(log log n), amortized. Personal communication from Chris L. Kuszmaul <fyodor@nas.nasa.gov>, January 1999.

Author: CLK


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Chris L. Kuszmaul, "shadow merge insert", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 17 December 2004. (accessed TODAY) Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/shadowmrgins.html