New linear-time algorithm for suffix array construction

Juha Kärkkäinen, Peter Sanders , and Stefan Burkhardt: Linear Work Suffix Array Construction, Journal of the ACM (JACM), Volume 53 Issue 6, November 2006.
As the authors have said, this algorithm narrows the gap between suffix tree and suffix array, which are widely used and largely interchangeable index structures on strings and sequences. Usually theoreticians prefer the former due to linear-time construction algorithms and more explicit structure while practitioners prefer the latter due to its simplicity and space efficiency. Now there is one more reason for practitioners to stick with suffix array.