Talk:Judy array

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Independent analysis

While this article is the first hit for Judy array on Google, I do not think it is very informative. Unfortunately the official documentation reads very much like advertisement and keeps telling how great Judy arrays are instead of telling what they are. I have found two analyses by third-parties though, and they provide some insight into how Judy arrays compare to better-known data structures. I do not think I could incorporate them into the article, because I did not really do my homework, but here they are anyway: [1], [2] --CyHawk (talk) 11:51, 18 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Less Vulnerable Than What?

The article says "Judy arrays are also believed to be less vulnerable to algorithmic complexity attacks". Less vulnerable than what? 71.112.25.123 (talk) 19:34, 28 October 2009 (UTC)ATBS[reply]

Since the line has not been explained and isn't informative, i am removing it. B.suhasini (talk) 14:50, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Less vulnerable than, for example, common implementations of hash tables, which can easily be coaxed into their quadratic worst-case performance. http://www.cs.rice.edu/~scrosby/hash/CrosbyWallach_UsenixSec2003/ William Cushing — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.32.45.10 (talk) 20:51, 20 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Description of the Algorithm?

There is no description of the data structure or of its algorithms, neither in pseudo-code nor in any programming language. Could someone familiar with it post them, a simple complexity analysis(like those in most wiki algorithm pages) would be good to. 178.166.8.164 (talk) 02:57, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please see the implementation notes on my Judy Array project page at: http://code.google.com/p/judyarray karl m {{User electrical engineer}} (talk) 23:51, 11 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Patent Restrictions

I agree that wikipedia is not the place to issue opinions about the applicability of patents to specific situations. However, the HP patent is a very detailed description of some methods that are not particularly important to a general implemention of judy arrays -- like the myriad of methods to compress radix nodes for example. Additionally, when HP released the 25,000 lines of source code of their implementation to Source Forge, they did so with a general release of rights to subsequent usage.

With this in mind, I've made an edit to the main page to mitigate the impact of bringing up the patent question. Yes, there is a patent, but no, it is limited to its coverage of a novel HP implementation. Hope this helps,

karl m {{User electrical engineer}} (talk) 23:47, 11 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The HP patent is listed as a drawback of Judy arrays, but the patent - as you say - is limited to the HP specifics. Since the patent bears no relation on Judy arrays generally I don't think it's relevant here and suggest removal. 15.203.169.125 (talk) 09:14, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Judy arrays cannot replace on-disk B-trees

B-trees are chiefly used when storing data on block devices (e.g. for database indices), which is e.g. why the proxy operation for analyzing time complexity is a disk seek (corresponding to a node access). Judy arrays cannot possibly compete with B-trees in this use case, so the lede is misleading. — Kallikanzarid^talk 09:45, 9 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Large data sets efficiency

The claim that Judy arrays are more efficient with large data sets compared to rival data structures is very, very dubious. Advanced data structures like Cuckoo hashing hash tables have very good performance even with load factors exceeding 90% - a far cry from hash tables usually discussed in comparison with Judy arrays, so a source for their time and space performance comparison is needed. Also, the notion of performance should be made very precise, because benchmarks show that insertions and deletions from Judy arrays are on average slower than the corresponding operations even in primitive separate chaining hash tables, and proponents of Judy arrays often admit that they really only care about lookup time and space overhead. — Kallikanzarid^talk 10:03, 9 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Terminology

Is there any point in having Terminology section in the article? It defines 3 terms that are supposedly needed to describe Judy arrays, yet they are not actually used anywhere in the article outside this very section (except for population which doesn't really deviate much from common understanding of that word and can be easily replaced with number of keys/elements). In its current form this section seems to be unrelated to the main topic of the article at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MwGamera (talk • contribs) 22:07, 29 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You can removed it if you want. I just reworded it anyway since it was a close paraphrase copyright violation. Jason Quinn (talk) 21:35, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]