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- 1"Real world use" seems to be asking the wrong question, similar to "what are real world uses of arrays?"Roger Pate– Roger Pate2010-10-06 02:12:56 +00:00Commented Oct 6, 2010 at 2:12
- 8Everyone knows the real world use of arrays!smatter– smatter2010-10-06 03:02:13 +00:00Commented Oct 6, 2010 at 3:02
- 1Contrast how many time have to used Fibonacci heaps to the number of times you have used arrays in your entire programming life.smatter– smatter2010-10-06 03:03:35 +00:00Commented Oct 6, 2010 at 3:03
- 2Related: Has anyone actually implemented a Fibonacci heap efficiently?. Executive summary: Binary heaps outperform Fibonacci in most real-world applications, unless the underlying graph is very dense. This is basically because a binary heap can be efficiently implemented using an array, but a Fibonacci heap is implemented as a system of pointers.ire_and_curses– ire_and_curses2010-10-08 19:51:02 +00:00Commented Oct 8, 2010 at 19:51
- 1@devnull: it is way to broad by today's site standards. I've re-closed it to reflect that.Martijn Pieters– Martijn Pieters2017-12-18 19:29:23 +00:00Commented Dec 18, 2017 at 19:29
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