The Term of "Heap"
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date_range Feb. 15, 2019 - Friday infosortAlgorithmlabeldata structure
The term “heap” was originally coined in the context of heapsort, but it has since come to refer to “garbage-collected storage,” such as the programming languages Java and Lisp provide.
The heap data structure in MIT 6.006 is NOT garbage-collected storage.
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