What prevents Van Emde Boas trees from being more popular in real-world applications?
问题 We know balanced trees perform insertion, deletion, and search in O(log n) -time, examples include Red-Black AVL Splay B-tree (and its variants). However, when keys are integers in some limited range, it is possible to use a Van Emde Boas tree to drop these operations down to O(log(log n)) -time, i.e., exponentially better than AVL or RB trees. Well, this is actually the case of many real world applications. I see lots of applications for this. One I'd like to cite is on databases, for which