On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 18:29 +0900, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> The real solution is a tree for offset lookups, and a linear walk of order
> O(1) for subsequent sequential accesses.

Walking a tree is usually a cheap operation, unless the tree is wrongly
designed. You just need to remember the current tree node to enable
linear walk from there.

But it's true splay trees is not the appropriate lookup structure for
this. To much runtime churn with the tree rebalancing itself..

Regards
Henrik

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