Abstract. The suffix tree is an extremely important data structure for stringology, with a wealth of applications in bioinformatics. Classical implementations require much space, which renders them useless for large problems. Recent research has yielded two implementations offering widely different space-time tradeoffs. However, each of them has practicality problems regarding either space or time requirements. In this paper we implement a recent theoretical proposal and show it yields an extremely interesting structure that lies in between, offering both practical times and affordable space. The implementation of the theoretical proposal is by no means trivial and involves significant algorithm engineering. 1

Abstract. The longest-common-prefix (LCP) array is an adjunct to the suffix array that allows many string processing problems to be solved in optimal time and space. Its construction is a bottleneck in practice, taking almost as long as suffix array construction. In this paper, we describe algorithms for constructing the permuted LCP (PLCP) array in which the values appear in position order rather than lexicographical order. Using the PLCP array, we can either construct or simulate the LCP array. We obtain a family of algorithms including the fastest known LCP construction algorithm and some extremely space efficient algorithms. We also prove a new combinatorial property of the LCP values. 1