Review

We want to support fast insertions, deletions, and finds into a binary search tree.

Standard binary search trees don't cut it because operations take too long: as much as tex2html_wrap_inline105 for stringy trees.

Balanced binary search trees remedy this, but are complex to implement.

Splay trees are easy to implement, but tricky to analyze. They give bushy trees in an amortized sense.


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