A heap is a tree-based data structure that satisfies the heap property. For questions about memory allocated from the system heap, use the [memory-management] tag.
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Continuous median in Ruby
I have written a program in Ruby which calculates the median of a streaming set of numbers dynamically. For each number that arrives, the median is calculated for all the numbers that have arrived so ...
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performance issue with java heap when data hits this part of the code [closed]
below is the part code of a multi-threaded socket server java console application. when the application receives normal data(every 30 sec) heap memory is stable but as soon as data incoming frequency ...
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Efficient bookkeeping in heap
I'm trying to implement a heap using list data structure. I'd also like to keep track of the position of elements in the list in order to enable easy deletion. My implementation involves looping ...
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Priority Queue/BinaryHeap Implementation in Objective-C
I don't see a ready-made priority queue class in Objective-C. Please review this. Full xcodeproject with unit test cases at https://github.com/smartiothome/BinaryHeap
Heap.h
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Indexed Fibonacci heap implementation
I implemented two versions of a Fibonacci heap one using a unordered map (mapping keys to their nodes) so that the client can call decrease in \$O(1)\$ average and ...
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Testing if array is heap
This method tests an array of integers satisfies to see if its a max binary heap. This means
each node is greater than or equal to it's children
each node has at most 2 children
the leaf nodes are ...
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Generic Pairing Heap Performance
I have made a generic pairing heap library in C. Pairing heaps are one of the several heap variants with better asymptotic running times than standard binary heaps (others include Fibonacci heaps and ...
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Heap Implementation in C#
I am learning fundamental data structures, and I want to know if this is a valid implementation of a heap. Can any C# features be used to improve or extend the implementation? In addition to heapsort, ...
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(Min)Heap implementation
Being that I needed a min-heap implementation for a project, I implemented one. Now that it's finished I though about having a review for it. I'm interested in all aspects: readability, performance, ...
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Heap Sort implementation time complexity
I have implemented Heap sort, but i think the time complexity is more than (nlogn).
Could anyone explain me; what is wrong in my code which makes more time complexity.
I will be glad if the answer is ...
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Time Limit Exceeded for build_max_heap
This problem is from HackerEarth:
The Monk learned about priority queues recently and asked his teacher for an interesting problem. So his teacher came up with a simple problem. He now has an ...
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A* implementation is not running efficiently but gets correct result
I'm not entirely sure what code other people will need to see, if I miss something off that is important please leave me a comment and I will update it as soon as I possibly can.
I have coded an A* ...
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Nim Game with Arrays [closed]
I am suppose was to incorporate arrays in my NIM game java code, so that we can allow the user to decide on how many heaps are in play. I am stuck and have no clue how to do so.
Heap Class
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Max heap implementation in Kotlin
I wrote this class a while ago to learn Kotlin and heaps, so any tips (on either my code style or my heap algorithm) would be appreciated!
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Generic implementation of mutable binary heap
std::priority_queue does not support dynamically updating element priorities. This class template extends it by allowing updating priorities of elements in the heap....
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Generic implementation of SiftUp/Down operations on binary heap
Binary heap construction and maintenance boil down to the two basic operations: sift up and sift down. Following are generic template implementations of the two operations. Any comments are welcome. I'...
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Fibonacci heap in C - follow-up
(See the previous iteration.)
I have incorporated some points made by ChrisWue and refactored my Fibonacci heap implementation:
fibonacci_heap.h
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Minimalist Tree
While working on a small project, I tried to implement a super simple tree class in C++. It supports an arbitrary number of branches from each node.
In addition to general comments, my main concerns ...
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Heap update generic algorithms
In the standard library, there are no algorithms for element updates. This makes it unsuitable as a queue for a Dijkstra's algorithm, for example. Thus I implemented generic heap update functions with ...
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Binary heap performance optimization
I have implemented a binary heap as a exercise in data structures. I realize that I'm missing some useful functions (increase/decrease key for example) but I don't consider them interesting for the ...
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Min-Heap based priority queue class written in ES6
I would appreciate any feedback on syntax, naming convention, possible shortcuts, clarity of code and any other constructive feedback. This code was based off of the Priority Queue chapter in The ...
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Read characters from stdin into an resizeable array
As first steps in C, I'm trying to write a program that reads from stdin into an array allocated on the free store, until an exclamation mark ! is entered. The ...
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Min Heap Sort using Generics
Here is my working code for a min-heap sort using an Array-List. I would like any input as to areas that need additional refining and any areas that are against proper formatting/usage. Although not ...
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C# Treap implementation
I recently developed a simple treap data structure in C#. In the future, I may have the class extend IDictionary. For now, I only expose a public accessor and a ...
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N-ary heap implementation
NaryHeap as a generalization of binary heap. Each node has up to N children. A template specialization for N = 2 (BinaryHeap) ...
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d-ary heap in C
Now I have this d-ary heap data structure. Note that for d = 2 this is a binary heap. The client programmer specifies the value ...
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Merge k Sorted Arrays
Please review my answer for this interview question:
Merge k sorted arrays, using min heap.
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Heapsort for arbitrary ranges in Java
I plan to work on Introsort, which requires a working implementation of heap sort. Also, the heap sort implementation must be able to sort arbitrary ranges within an array, which, in turn, requires ...
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Heap selection sort - follow-up
See the previous and initial iteration.
I got rid of Run objects and just maintain two integer arrays in the RunHeap: one for ...
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Heap selection sort in Java
See the next iteration.
I designed and implemented this adaptive heap sort in Java. It works as follows:
Copy the range to be sorted into auxiliary array \$A\$
Create an empty run heap \$H\$
Scan \$...
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D-ary max heap implementation
I implemented a D-ary max heap backed by a vector for resizing. I would like to know any possible improvements in performance, design, and in the code in general.
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Sorting an integer array using heap sort
I have written this program to sort an array using heap sort. Please review it for further improvements.
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kth smallest element in min heap [closed]
I am working on to find the kth smallest element in min heap. I have code for this whose complexity is \$O(k \log k)\$. I tried to improve it to \$O(k)\$.
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Dijkstra's algorithm without relaxation
I'm trying to implement Dijkstra's algorithm in Python, but the issue is that Python doesn't have support for key-based heaps out of the box, so applying relaxation step of the classical algorithm ...
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Heap implementation of the “median maintenance” algorithm
I have implemented a heap data structure for Coursera's algorithms course. The problem I have to solve is:
The goal of this problem is to implement the "Median Maintenance"
algorithm. The text ...
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Find Kth largest element in an array
I am preparing for interviews where my code would be judged based on optimizations, OOP concepts, code readability as well as my knowledge of JAVA and design patterns.
What comments will you give in ...
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Building a correct d-max heap bottom up
I want to implement a d-max heap using a bottom-up approach. This way I will start from the last parent in the tree and build myself up to the root of the heap. We will compare children and parents in ...
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Max-heap implementation with List
I am trying to create max-heap for practice.
Are there any bugs?
Are there ways that I can improve the code quality?
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Simple binary heap in C#
I've written a simple binary heap in C# and I want to know if it has any problems or if I can make it better.
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Implementation of a binary heap
I've read a little about binary heaps/priority queues and decided to try my hand at making my own implementation of one. I'm not the most experienced programmer and I would be really grateful if you ...
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Function to get top k words in a given String
This is a two-part job:
to identify a word
to find the top k words
I've tried to use regex to split but it's taking 10x more time when string is really long. ...
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Max heap implementation
I have implemented a max-Heap data structure backed by an array. I wanted to know whether this is an acceptable implementation or not.
Any improvements or suggestions are welcome.
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Binary heap implementation in Golang
I have implemented a binary heap in Go to get familiar with the language.
GitHub
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Inefficient hash map operation provokes OutOfMemory: Java heap space error
I know I can increase the size of the heap but that seems like a poor solution.
This program runs correctly on small files but when run on large data sets it crashes with the OutOfMemory: Java heap ...
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Binomial heap in Java
I have this implementation of a binomial heap providing insert, decrease-key and extract in logarithmic time.
MinPriorityQueue.java:
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Binary heap with O(1) lookup and O(log n) change key
I needed a priority queue that allowed efficient searching and changing of keys. I tried std::priority_queue, but the interface was extremely limiting. Not being ...
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A different implementation of Heap Sort
The following implementation is a bit different form the standard implementations I have read. Is it correct?
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