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Patricia Tree API - NODE_WITH_ID

Associate a unique number to each node, so they can be used as keys in sets or maps.

include NODE

Types

type 'key key

The type of keys.

type ('key, 'map) value

The type of value, which depends on the type of the key and the type of the map.

type 'map t

The type of the map, which is parameterized by a type.

Constructors: build values

val empty : 'map t

The empty map

val leaf : 'key key -> ('key, 'map) value -> 'map t

A singleton leaf, similar to BASE_MAP.singleton

val branch : prefix:int -> branching_bit:int -> tree0:'map t -> tree1:'map t -> 'map t

A branch node. This shouldn't be called externally unless you know what you're doing! Doing so could easily break the data structure's invariants.

When called, it assumes that:

• Neither tree0 nor tree1 should be empty.
• branching_bit should have a single bit set
• prefix should be normalized (bits below branching_bit set to zero)
• All elements of tree0 should have their to_int start by prefix followed by 0 at position branching_bit).
• All elements of tree1 should have their to_int start by prefix followed by 0 at position branching_bit).

Destructors: access the value

type 'map view = private

1. | Empty : 'map view
   (*

   Can happen only at the toplevel: there is no empty interior node.

   *)
2. | Branch : {
   1. prefix : int;
   2. branching_bit : int;
   3. tree0 : 'map t;
   4. tree1 : 'map t;
   } -> 'map view
   (*

   Same constraints as branch:

   • branching_bit contains only one bit set; the corresponding mask is (branching_bit - 1).
   • prefix is normalized: the bits below the branching_bit are set to zero (i.e. prefix & (branching_bit - 1) = 0).
   • All elements of tree0 should have their to_int start by prefix followed by 0 at position branching_bit).
   • All elements of tree1 should have their to_int start by prefix followed by 0 at position branching_bit).

   *)
3. | Leaf : {
   1. key : 'key key;
   2. value : ('key, 'map) value;
   } -> 'map view
   (*

   A key -> value mapping.

   *)

This makes the map nodes accessible to the pattern matching algorithm; this corresponds 1:1 to the SimpleNode implementation. This just needs to be copy-and-pasted for every node type.

val is_empty : 'map t -> bool

Check if the map is empty. Should be constant time.

val view : 'a t -> 'a view

Convert the map to a view. Should be constant time.

val to_int : 'a t -> int

Unique number for each node.

This is not hash-consing. Equal nodes created separately will have different identifiers. On the flip side, nodes with equal identifiers will always be physically equal.