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32 Written by Ami Tavory and Vladimir Dreizin (IBM Haifa Research
33 Laboratories), and Benjamin Kosnik (Red Hat).
35 This library was partially written at
36 <a class=
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37 It is based heavily on policy-based design and uses many useful
38 techniques from Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design
39 Patterns Applied by Andrei Alexandrescu.
41 Two ideas are borrowed from the SGI-STL implementation:
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46 The red-black trees contain both a root node and a header node
47 (containing metadata), connected in a way that forward and
48 reverse iteration can be performed efficiently.
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50 Some test utilities borrow ideas from
51 <a class=
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53 We would like to thank Scott Meyers for useful comments (without
54 attributing to him any flaws in the design or implementation of the
56 </p><p>We would like to thank Matt Austern for the suggestion to
57 include tries.
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