RFR: 8345314: Add a red–black tree as a utility data structure [v18]

Axel Boldt-Christmas aboldtch at openjdk.org
Wed Jan 29 07:17:00 UTC 2025


On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:54:13 GMT, Casper Norrbin <cnorrbin at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> This effort began as an exploration of replacing the current NMT treap with a red-black tree. Along the way, I discovered that others were also interested in having a general-purpose tree structure available within HotSpot.
>> 
>> The red-black tree is designed to serve as a drop-in replacement for the existing NMT treap, keeping a nearly identical interface. However, I’ve also added a few additional requested features, such as an iterator.
>> 
>> Testing builds off the treap tests, adding a few extra that inserts/removes and checks that the tree is correct. Testing uses the function `verify_self`, which iterates over the tree and checks that all red-black tree properties hold. Additionally, the tree has been tested in vmatree instead of the treap without any errors.
>> 
>> For those who may want to revisit the fundamentals of red-black trees, [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%E2%80%93black_tree) offers a great summary with tables covering the various balancing cases. Alternatively, your favorite data structure book could provide even more insight.
>
> Casper Norrbin has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   |& and &= when setting colors

src/hotspot/share/utilities/rbTree.inline.hpp line 31:

> 29: #include "utilities/powerOfTwo.hpp"
> 30: #include "utilities/rbTree.hpp"
> 31: #include <utility> // for std::swap

Can we use the `swap` from `utilities/globalDefinitions.hpp` instead? This would be the first explicit include of `<utility>` in hotspot. It is probably the path of least resistance.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22360#discussion_r1933365018


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