On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Daniel K. <anmeldema...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dijkstra's algorithm ... relies heavily on mutating arrays

Well, the imperative implementation does.

> Not mutating the underlying arrays would probably result in poor
> performance.

Indeed. Non-mutable arrays are not very performant for mutations.
Tree-like data structures Are Your Friend.

I've never compared the performance of an ST-based implementation with
a set/map based algorithm, but I've often found the latter usably
performant.

--Max
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