On 7/8/26 12:59 PM, Kristofer Karlsson wrote:

On Wed, 8 Jul 2026 at 12:44, René Scharfe [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

I didn't
find this method used anywhere else, which is a warning sign, but I
can't find any catch.

I am not sure why it's a warning sign to have no other usages,
especially when it's a file local static function.

I meant that I didn't find this optimization in other priority queue
implementations or papers, but admittedly I didn't do an exhaustive
search.  Given it's benefits I would have expected to find prior art
on it pretty easily, though.

René