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[MachineOutliner] NFC: Comment tidying

The comment on describing the suffix tree had some pruning
stuff that was out of date in it.

Also fixed some typos.

llvm-svn: 309365
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Jessica Paquette 2017-07-28 05:59:30 +00:00
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@ -187,8 +187,7 @@ struct SuffixTreeNode {
/// \brief For internal nodes, a pointer to the internal node representing
/// the same sequence with the first character chopped off.
///
/// This has two major purposes in the suffix tree. The first is as a
/// shortcut in Ukkonen's construction algorithm. One of the things that
/// This acts as a shortcut in Ukkonen's algorithm. One of the things that
/// Ukkonen's algorithm does to achieve linear-time construction is
/// keep track of which node the next insert should be at. This makes each
/// insert O(1), and there are a total of O(N) inserts. The suffix link
@ -203,27 +202,6 @@ struct SuffixTreeNode {
/// move to the next insertion point in O(1) time. If we don't, then we'd
/// have to query from the root, which takes O(N) time. This would make the
/// construction algorithm O(N^2) rather than O(N).
///
/// The suffix link is also used during the tree pruning process to let us
/// quickly throw out a bunch of potential overlaps. Say we have a sequence
/// S we want to outline. Then each of its suffixes contribute to at least
/// one overlapping case. Therefore, we can follow the suffix links
/// starting at the node associated with S to the root and "delete" those
/// nodes, save for the root. For each candidate, this removes
/// O(|candidate|) overlaps from the search space. We don't actually
/// completely invalidate these nodes though; doing that is far too
/// aggressive. Consider the following pathological string:
///
/// 1 2 3 1 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3
///
/// If we, for the sake of example, outlined 1 2 3, then we would throw
/// out all instances of 2 3. This isn't desirable. To get around this,
/// when we visit a link node, we decrement its occurrence count by the
/// number of sequences we outlined in the current step. In the pathological
/// example, the 2 3 node would have an occurrence count of 8, while the
/// 1 2 3 node would have an occurrence count of 2. Thus, the 2 3 node
/// would survive to the next round allowing us to outline the extra
/// instances of 2 3.
SuffixTreeNode *Link = nullptr;
/// The parent of this node. Every node except for the root has a parent.