Why Skip Lists Are the Wrong Default for Matchmaking Queues: A Fenwick Tree Case Study
Published: June 12, 2026
Duration: 21:33
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Why a Fenwick tree beats a skip-list sorted set for matchmaking queues: ~35x faster queries, 3x less memory, reproducible Go benchmarks, and the caveats.
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