A comparison of heaps and the TL structure for the simulation event set

  • Authors:
  • W. R. Franta;Kurt Maly

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis;Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1978

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Abstract

Following publication of our paper [2], questions arose with respect to the superiority of the TL structure over heaps,1 particularly in the face of the remarks of Gonnet [3], concerning the use of heaps for the physical realization of the simulation event set. Gonnet's communication was in response to the Vaucher and Duval paper [5], and suggested the heap to be a more efficient structure than any proposed in [5]. As regards a comparison of heaps and the TL structure we can make the following remarks: