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NAME

Data::PrioQ::SkewBinomial - A functional priority queue based on skew binomial trees

SYNOPSIS

use aliased 'Data::PrioQ::SkewBinomial' => 'PQ';

my $pq = PQ->empty;
$pq = $pq->insert(1, "foo")->insert(3, "baz")->insert(2, "bar");
until ($pq->is_empty) {
    ($pq, my ($priority, $data)) = $pq->shift_min;
    print "$priority: $data\n";
}

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a purely functional priority queue. "Purely functional" means no method ever modifies a queue; instead they all return a new modified object. There is no real constructor either because there's no need for one: if the empty queue is never modified, you can just reuse it.

The following methods are available:

Data::PrioQ::SkewBinomial->empty

O(1). Returns the empty queue.

$pq->is_empty

O(1). Tests whether a priority queue is empty. Returns a boolean value.

$pq->insert($priority, $item)

O(1). Returns a new queue containing $item inserted into $pq with a priority level of $priority. $priority must be a number.

$pq->merge($pq2)

O(1). Returns a new queue containing all elements of $pq and $pq2.

$pq->peek_min

O(1). Finds the item with the lowest priority value in $pq. Returns ($priority, $item) in list context and $item in scalar context. If $pq is empty, returns the empty list/undef.

$pq->shift_min

O(log n). Finds and removes the item with the lowest priority value in $pq. Returns ($pq_, $priority, $item) in list context and $pq_ in scalar context, where $pq_ is a priority queue containing the remaining elements. If $pq is empty, returns ($pq, undef, undef)/$pq in list/scalar context, respectively.

AUTHOR

Lukas Mai, <l.mai at web.de>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-data-prioq-skewbinomial at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Data-PrioQ-SkewBinomial. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Data::PrioQ::SkewBinomial

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The code in this module is based on: Chris Okasaki, Purely Functional Data Structures.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2008 Lukas Mai, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.