[erlang-questions] merging gb_trees

Joel Reymont joelr1@REDACTED
Fri Oct 21 01:27:35 CEST 2011


I withdraw my question.

Switching from gb_trees to orddict and using orddict:merge/3 answers it.

Kudos to the #erlang channel on IRC.

On Oct 20, 2011, at 11:56 PM, Joel Reymont wrote:

> Forgot to mention a constraint…
> 
> Some keys may exist in one tree but not in the other.
> 
> The resulting tree should have all the keys and the values should be copied if a key does not exist in one of the tree and summed up otherwise.
> 
> I actually have multiple trees to merge into a single one but I figure I could repeat the operation two trees at a time.
> 
> On Oct 20, 2011, at 11:43 PM, Joel Reymont wrote:
> 
>> Suppose I have 2 gb_trees T1 and T2.
>> 
>> I want to merge them such that all the values with equal keys are summed up in the resulting tree.
>> 
>> What is the most elegant way to accomplish this?

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