The main idea of splay tree is to bring the recently accessed item to root of the tree, this makes the recently searched item to be accessible in O(1) time if accessed again. The idea is to use locality of reference (In a typical application, 80% of the access are to 20% of the items). Imagine a situation where we have millions or billions of keys and only few of them are accessed frequently, which is very likely in many practical applications.
Read full article from Splay Tree | Set 1 (Search) | GeeksforGeeks
No comments:
Post a Comment