Quickheap: the fastest comparison-based heap?
Summary
The article surveys the QuickHeap concept, detailing a bucket-based, SIMD-accelerated implementation and comparing it to traditional heaps and alternative priority queues. It covers randomized enhancements to avoid worst-case behavior, presents implementation details, and reports benchmarking results showing notable speedups in certain workloads. It also situates QuickHeap within broader literature on cache-efficient data structures and I/O considerations.