Re: [Caml-list] Ropes and rope-like functional extensible vectors with O(1) prepend/append.

["Nathaniel Gray" <n8gray@gmail.com>]

On 7/28/07, Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@acm.org> wrote:
> In the aftermath of the ICFP contest, during which I used Luca de Alfaro's
> Vec, I felt like implementing ropes, based on Boehm's paper and the well-known
> code included in his conservative garbage collector.
>
> I later realized that the basic implementation strategies ("dense" leaves,
> bounded tree height and amortized constant time concatenation of small
> strings) could be generalized to build general extensible vectors similar to
> Vec.
>
> ...
>
> You can find the code for both Rope and Vect at
> http://eigenclass.org/repos/oropes/head/
> It is still young and experimental, but it's maybe worth a look. Any feedback
> is very welcome.
>
> The documentation can be found under
> http://eigenclass.org/repos/oropes/head/doc/

This looks pretty nice!  I don't have an immediate need for it but
it's a good thing to have in the toolbox.

Thanks,
-n8

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