"A HashMap helps you find what you already know. A Heap helps you decide what should happen...
"A HashMap helps you find what you already know. A Heap helps you decide what should happen next."
In the previous article, we discovered that not every software problem is about finding a specific object.
Sometimes, the system already knows exactly what it's looking for.
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