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authorTavian Barnes <tavianator@tavianator.com>2022-10-26 16:22:50 -0400
committerTavian Barnes <tavianator@tavianator.com>2022-10-29 11:24:16 -0400
commitc9447e42e04dfb43d9b3ba1e33aa80b8568c3b35 (patch)
treeb4bdc678896b3dc4fe7dc36100b70a9821eca161 /src
parent8828eed307da56b129ca56cf9ee3d9d108d81d52 (diff)
downloadbfs-c9447e42e04dfb43d9b3ba1e33aa80b8568c3b35.tar.xz
trie: Convert ASCII art to Unicode art
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/trie.c80
1 files changed, 49 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/src/trie.c b/src/trie.c
index bae9acb..887dd65 100644
--- a/src/trie.c
+++ b/src/trie.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
/****************************************************************************
* bfs *
- * Copyright (C) 2019 Tavian Barnes <tavianator@tavianator.com> *
+ * Copyright (C) 2019-2022 Tavian Barnes <tavianator@tavianator.com> *
* *
* Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any *
* purpose with or without fee is hereby granted. *
@@ -22,29 +22,29 @@
* look like
*
* A A A A
- * *--->*--->*--->*--->$
- * | | | D D
- * | | +--->*--->$
- * | | B C D
- * | +--->*--->*--->$
- * | D D A A
- * +--->*--->*--->*--->$
- * | D D
- * +--->*--->$
+ * ●───→●───→●───→●───→○
+ * │ │ │ D D
+ * │ │ └───→●───→○
+ * │ │ B C D
+ * │ └───→●───→●───→○
+ * │ D D A A
+ * └───→●───→●───→●───→○
+ * │ D D
+ * └───→●───→○
*
* A compressed (PATRICIA) trie collapses internal nodes that have only a single
* child, like this:
*
* A A AA
- * *--->*--->*---->$
- * | | | DD
- * | | +---->$
- * | | BCD
- * | +----->$
- * | DD AA
- * +---->*---->$
- * | DD
- * +---->$
+ * ●───→●───→●────→○
+ * │ │ │ DD
+ * │ │ └────→○
+ * │ │ BCD
+ * │ └─────→○
+ * │ DD AA
+ * └────→●────→○
+ * │ DD
+ * └────→○
*
* The nodes can be compressed further by dropping the actual compressed
* sequences from the nodes, storing it only in the leaves. This is the
@@ -53,21 +53,39 @@
* branch on, need to be stored in each node.
*
* A A A
- * 0--->1--->2--->AAAA
- * | | | D
- * | | +--->AADD
- * | | B
- * | +--->ABCD
- * | D A
- * +--->2--->DDAA
- * | D
- * +--->DDDD
+ * 0───→1───→2───→AAAA
+ * │ │ │ D
+ * │ │ └───→AADD
+ * │ │ B
+ * │ └───→ABCD
+ * │ D A
+ * └───→2───→DDAA
+ * │ D
+ * └───→DDDD
*
* Nodes are represented very compactly. Rather than a dense array of children,
* a sparse array of only the non-NULL children directly follows the node in
- * memory. A bitmap is used to track which children exist; the index of a child
- * i is found by counting the number of bits below bit i that are set. A tag
- * bit is used to tell pointers to internal nodes apart from pointers to leaves.
+ * memory. A bitmap is used to track which children exist.
+ *
+ * ┌────────────┐
+ * │ [4] [3] [2][1][0] ←─ children
+ * │ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
+ * │ 14 10 6 3 0 ←─ sparse index
+ * │ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
+ * │ 0100010001001001 ←─ bitmap
+ * │
+ * │ To convert a sparse index to a dense index, mask off the bits above it, and
+ * │ count the remaining bits.
+ * │
+ * │ 10 ←─ sparse index
+ * │ ↓
+ * │ 0000001111111111 ←─ mask
+ * │ & 0100010001001001 ←─ bitmap
+ * │ ────────────────
+ * │ = 0000000001001001
+ * │ └──┼──┘
+ * │ [3] ←─ dense index
+ * └───────────────────┘
*
* This implementation tests a whole nibble (half byte/hex digit) at every
* branch, so the bitmap takes up 16 bits. The remainder of a machine word is