When implementing data structures, its crucial to validate that your implementation is working as expected. A suite of tests is essential to not only debugging, but also optimizing performance one your implementation is correct. In the past I've discus
As computer architectures continue to evolve, data structures which were once considered well suited for one task may shift to become more applicable for a different task. One example of this is the family of balanced search tree's known as B-Trees. B-
I want you to read through the following implementation of mergesort, and think about the reasoning behind why writing this particular algorithm in this particular way would be. I mean, it starts off with a caveat that if a cer
I've been playing about with a visual sorting app that I made while messing about with SFML. I was adding quicksort variants, and If you know anything about quicksort's performance, than
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From Automata To A Lexical Analyzer
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DFA Minimization: Moore's Algorithm
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Parsing Regular Expressions with MGCPGen
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Determinization: Converting εNFA to DFA
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Implementing Lexical Scoping: Resolving Variable Names with De Bruijn Indices
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Improving Balance of Ternary Search Tries
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Making Sense of LALR Parser Construction
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Compiling Set Comprehensions to Bytecode: an exercise in managing abstractions
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Fast Multi-Pattern String Searching with the Aho-Corasick Algorithm
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Capture Groups: Tracking Regular Expression Sub Matches