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  1. When it comes to high-performance systems, traditional balanced binary search trees can hit a wall with concurrency due to rebalancing locks. Enter skiplists: a probabilistic data structure offering efficient O(log n) operations, even outperforming trees in multi-threaded environments. Learn how they simplify parallelization challenges and why they're crucial for databases like CockroachDB.

    tpp.blog/1al0tx0

    #technology #skiplists #datastructures

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  2. Looking into optimal choice criteria/euristics for the number of levels in #skiplists. For sure there is a tradeoff among memory footprint and efficiency to find.
    Hints are welcome.
    #algorithms #optimization

  3. Looking into optimal choice criteria/euristics for the number of levels in #skiplists. For sure there is a tradeoff among memory footprint and efficiency to find.
    Hints are welcome.
    #algorithms #optimization