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Trees I: Radix treesTrees I: Radix treesPosted Mar 19, 2006 8:09 UTC (Sun) by ncm (subscriber, #165)Parent article: Trees I: Radix trees
The designer of Judy trees has expressed wonder at why anybody ever talks about binary trees (e.g. red-black trees) any more, since his measurements indicate that no matter what you do, their performance always stinks compared to modern cache-aware techniques. The only reasonable explanation is the same as the reason university graduates, once, all knew ancient Greek, and had studied geometry but not calculus.
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Trees I: Radix trees Posted Jun 30, 2006 23:22 UTC (Fri) by wahern (subscriber, #37304) [Link] The author/inventor put it well himself when he said, "Well I cannot describe Judy in 10 minutes -- what possessed me?"
Source: http://judy.sourceforge.net/doc/10minutes.htm
Simplicity is often a very valuable quality, especially in software development.
Judy licensing Posted Jul 18, 2007 7:59 UTC (Wed) by iler (guest, #46313) [Link] Another reason, besides simlpicity, is licensing.
Is Judy GPLed ?
Judy licensing Posted Oct 23, 2008 21:31 UTC (Thu) by bcl (subscriber, #17631) [Link]
LGPL according to the article linked above
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