DualArrayDeque: Building a Deque from Two Stacks
Learn how to implement the DualArrayDeque data structure.
We'll cover the following
Next, we present a data structure, the DualArrayDeque
that achieves the same performance bounds as an ArrayDeque
by using two ArrayStack
s. Although the asymptotic performance of the DualArrayDeque
is no better than that of the ArrayDeque
, it is still worth studying, since it offers a good example of how to make a sophisticated data structure by combining two simpler data structures.
Two ends of a DualArrayDeque
A DualArrayDeque
represents a list using two ArrayStack
s. Recall that an ArrayStack
is fast when the operations on it modify elements near the end. A DualArrayDeque
places two ArrayStack
s, called front
and back
, back-to-back so that operations are fast at either end.
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