Questions tagged [heap]
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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Min heap C++ implementation
I have implemented a min heap in C++, and I want to improve it in every possible way. Could you please review it and let me know your suggestions/comments?
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Repeatedly keep removing 2 smallest elements and add its sum back to the list and return newly inserted elements' total
I have a list of unsorted numbers. Each time, I need to remove 2 smallest numbers and insert back its sum into the list. Repeatedly do this till the 1 final element is remaining in the list.
Return ...
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C++11 min-heap with configurable arity
Here is a simple heap implementation that allows the heap arity to be chosen at compile time, including the degenerate case where n=1 and the heap is effectively a sorted array with a terrible repair ...
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Max heap in Haskell
I wrote a (max) heap in Haskell which is balanced after every (public) operation. Not based on any documentation. Focus is on:
speed, that is the right time-complexities (not necessarily optimal);
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Basic Qt5 UI with button [closed]
I have the following Qt class:
mainwindow.h
class MainWindow : public QWidget {
Q_OBJECT
QPushButton* m_button;
public:
explicit MainWindow();
};
mainwindow....
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Min Heap Implementation
Min Heap Implementation
As an exercise, I wanted to implement a min heap using JavaScript.
I'm not terribly familiar with JavaScript best practices, so I wanted to get feedback on my approach.
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RFC 1951 “Deflate” compression
This is a little project I did over Christmas, I wanted to understand a bit more about how RFC 1951 (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1951.txt) compression worked, mostly out of curiosity really. RFC 1951 ...
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Program to check if heap order is correct or not
There is a Java program to check if a Heap (Min) is in the correct order. Heap Order means the parent is less than both left child and right child.
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Generic Min Heap Implementation in Java
There is a Min-Heap implementation in Java. BubbleUp() and BubbleDown() could have been coded using recursion but I prefer without recursion. Would there be a major difference if had used recursion? ...
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Maximum Heap Container
I implemented this max-heap to satisfy the C++ Container requirements. I am fairly confident I implemented bubble_up, bubble_down...
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Yet Another MinHeap
So, this has been done quite a few times on here, but each of the linked implementations has some significant issues. Since I needed a MinHeap anyway, I figured I would throw my version into the ring.
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Python 3 implementation of binary heap
Inspired by exercise on HackerRank where I'm expected to implement binary heap with additional method that allows to remove any value from heap I decided to clean up and expand my code a little. ...
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Binary heap implementation with a generic base class
This is my attempt at implementing a Binary heap. I made an abstract base class Heap with an abstract property controlling whether it is a min-heap or a max-heap.
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C++ heap CPS: Continuation Passing Style with Recursion
I am willing to see how to write readable and efficient continuations on the heap in c++. I am not quite satisfied.
The following is just an exercise: it is coded for fun. I post the code here ...
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Binary Heap (list-based)
This is my first attempt at implementing a heap data structure and I've decided to cover the methods Peek, Pop, ...
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Heap implementation for numeric types
I am trying to improve the quality of my code as well as trying to study the Heap data structure. I have implemented a minHeap (Heap in which minimum value nodes ...
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Max Heap Data Structure Implemented with Python List
Created a max heap using a Python list as the base storage. The heap starts at index 1.
Here is the heap:
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Min/Max Heap implementation in Python
I'm refreshing some of my datastructures. I saw this as the perfect opportunity to get some feedback on my code.
I'm interested in:
Algorithm wise:
Is my implementation correct? (The tests say so)
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Purely functional brodal heap implementation
I implemented the Brodal heap from Brodal & Osaki 1996: Optimal Purely Functional Priority Queues in haskell. The paper gives an implementation in ML but without higher-kinded types. The goal was ...
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Operations on a heap
Introduction
I started going through some basic algorithms as I'll have algorithms course next semester. The last time I've written any heap operations is around 5 years ago. This time around it took ...
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Implementing binary-heap in x86-64 assembly
I'm trying to implement some of the simplest classical data-structures in x86-64 assembly on linux.
PRIMARY GOAL: Reduce memory consumption and increase performance (maybe using x86-64 architecture ...
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Optimisation suggestions for Min Heap
Can someone please optimisations for my implementation of min heap.Its performance is poor compared to the heapq module in python. My use case for the MinHeap class is 'N' insertions and extractions ...
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Binary Heap Implementation in Java
Here's my array-based binary heap java implementation, looking for comments / suggestions on my approach. I used a base heap class to contain most of the logic, since the behavior of min/max heaps is ...
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Comparing two heap sift algorithms in Java
My research question was to find out whether minimizing the number of assignments in a heap lead to any time savings. The "optimized" version stores the element to sift, sift the minimum to its place ...
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Min&Max Heap implementation in .NET
Overview
I was doing some performance optimization patterns when I stumbled upon PriorityQueue and I implemented for that reason ...
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Binary heap (priority queue) implementation in JavaScript
I wrote this heap implementation because I need it to run Dijkstra's algorithm to find paths in a game (for which reason I'd like this implementation not to be unreasonably slow...)
Sadly I don't ...
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Binary Heap Object
I wrote a basic binary heap object in python 3, and was wondering how it can be improved to be cleaner and more pythonic.
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Template heap/priority-queue data structure with update-key operation
I implemented the following priority-queue/heap with an update-key operation. The update key uses the map from STL, which still requires lg(n) time for lookup. ...
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Prim's Algorithm using heapq module in python
Implementing Prim's with a \$O(m\log n)\$ run time using heaps, similar to Dijkstra heap implementation. Where \$n\$ is the number of nodes, and \$m\$ is the number of edges. Using the ...
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Minimum Priority Queue using Heap
After getting suggestions for Maximum Priority Queue I have written program for Minimum Priority Queue. Help me improve this code.
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Maximum Priority Queue using Heap
I have written this program for Maximim Priority Queue after studying from Introduction to Algorithm . I want to improve my code. Is there any other method to implement Priority Queue instead of Heap?
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Finding the running median with 2 heaps [closed]
I am trying to solve running median problem in hackerrank https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/ctci-find-the-running-median and below is my code
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C++ Dijkstra's shortest path implementation
I have created a c++ function that searches for the shortest path between two points with dijkstra's shortest path algorithmus. I'm using it right now in combination with a program that solves mazes ...
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Given some integers, return the k most frequent elements
Given a non-empty array of integers, return the k most frequent elements.
For example, given [1,1,1,2,2,3] and k = 2, return <...
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Implementation of the Heap Sort algorithm in C++
I'm writing a little collection of sorting algorithms and some benchmarks (using Google benchmark).
I wrote the following heap sort but I'm struggling in ...
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Select top 2 employees based on Grade and Alphabetical Order
Given a list of Employees ( name and grade). Output the names of the top 2 employees selected for a task(sorted based on grade and then alphabetically).
I am using a maxHeap and override the ...
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Could this be considered a valid mergesort? [closed]
I tried to do a mergesort function for an assignment without importing merge from heapq:
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Min & Max heap implementation
As follows I have implemented Min and Max heap data structure, using an array for storing elements. I would need a code review, please.
Please, spare recommendations for generic implementation as they ...
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Binary Min Heap data structure implementation
After reading about heap I tried to implement the heap. Below is my code along with test. Any feedback with respect to correctness, performance is welcome.
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Generic min heap in C++
I have recently started programming in C++. I have coded in MATLAB and C in the past. The following code implements a min heap as a generic class in C++. I would like to get some feedback on the ...
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k th smallest element in row wise and column wise sorted matrix
Find the kth smallest element in row wise and column wise sorted element:
Example:
matrix[row][col] < matrix[row+1][col]
matrix[row][col] < matrix[row][col+1]
mat=
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Binary Heap Order Fixing in Java
I am implementing a binary heap in Java. I've come to the point where I have to fix the heap ordering whenever a new node is being inserted to the heap. The code below fixes the heap ordering. I have ...
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Sorting almost sorted array with a minimum heap
I'm currently looking into the quickest way to sort an almost sorted array:
Given an array of \$n\$ elements, where each element is at most \$k\$ away
from its target position, devise an ...
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Python Heap Implementation
I made this snippet for reviewing my DS textbook.
Is it okay to write iterative loops in function _upheap and _downheap?
Any ...
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Implementing heap in Python
This is basically a straightforward heap implementation. I am just moving from C to Python and I wanted to make sure that I follow Python's best practices in general. This heap is supposed to support ...
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C++11 (or C++14?) max heap implementation with a simple example
I've been writing C++03 non-professionally for a long time, and I finally started to play around with C++11 and C++14. I decided to try my hand at implementing a data structure that I was previously ...
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My own little memory manager in C
I have implemented a simple version of malloc() and its associated functions, free(), ...
