;; self-balancing binary trees (such as red-black trees and AA trees),
;; making insertion slightly slower, deletion somewhat slower, and
;; retrieval somewhat faster (the asymptotic scaling is of course the
;; self-balancing binary trees (such as red-black trees and AA trees),
;; making insertion slightly slower, deletion somewhat slower, and
;; retrieval somewhat faster (the asymptotic scaling is of course the