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This module implements a memory-efficient node type (for trees, skip lists
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and similar data structures) for Perl.
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You may ask "Why bother implementing an ordered structure such as a tree
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when Perl has hashes built-in?" Since Perl is optimized for speed over
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memory usage, hashes (and lists) use a lot of memory.
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So the purpose of this package is to provide a simple low-level Node class
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which can be used as a base class to implement various kinds of tree
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structures. Each node has a key/value pair and a variable number of
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"children" pointers.
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How nodes are organized or the algorithm used to organize them is for you
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to implement.
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There is no Pure-perl version because this package was written to overcome
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limitations of Perl.
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