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Advantages of a threaded tree compared to an non-threaded one include:

> Faster traversal, since no stack need be maintained

> Less memory usage during traversal, since no stack need be maintained

> Algorithms that require moving forward and backward in the tree during traversal are much simplified, since this library implements only forward movement

> Greater generality, since one can go from a node to its successor or predecessor given only the node; no traversal need be in progress

Some disadvantages of threaded trees are:

> Slower tree creation, since threads need to be maintained. This can partly be alleviated by constructing the tree as an non-threaded tree, then threading it with a special libavl function

> In theory, threaded trees need two extra bits per node to indicate whether each child pointer points to an ordinary node or the node's successor/predecessor node. In libavl, however, these bits are stored in a byte that is used for structure alignment padding in non-threaded binary trees, so no extra storage is used

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