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I did my final year project of my degree on B-Trees (Cache Conscious Optimisation of STL Data Structures).

The short version is that you want to tune to page size, inserts/reads tend to be faster than RB-Trees but deletes are slower. This was true across a variety of chips and cpu architectures.

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