Re: meaningfully/compellingly "advertising" Ada on StackOverflow

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"John Perry" <john.perry@usm.edu> wrote in message 
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> On Wednesday, May 16, 2018 at 9:46:32 PM UTC-5, John Perry wrote:
>>> It's quite a simple program: adding and removing ~10^6 nodes to a tree, 
>>> and testing if the tree has a value.
>>
> Argh. I knew as I was typing that that the description wasn't quite right,
> but I didn't think to correct it. It adds (10^6/3) nodes, attempts to 
> delete
>(10^6)/3, and tests for a value in the tree (10^6)/3 times. Still, it's 
>relatively
> simple.

Did you try implementing that with the Tree container as opposed to using a 
raw nodes? Probably not quite as fast, but much less work to 
write/read/maintain (since the container does the storage management and 
provides most of the algorithms).

                          Randy.