Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@exomi.com> writes:

>> Witness the linux kernel, which uses lists when lists are the most
>> natrural, efficient data structure for the task at hand.
>
> Or not.  Witness the long-lived O(n) scheduler...  And I hope you
> don't include pre-1.0 versions, which were algorithmically...shocking
> beyond belief.
>
> And this despite the fact that based on his rants, Linus apparently
> hates all cache-trashing pointer chasing (and Lisp, and garbage
> collection etc.).

I'm not going to be dragged into a linux advocacy argument.  It
suffices to say: Lists are useful data structures, but there's no
getting around the need to know what you're doing.

Enough said.  At least this is my last contribution to this thread.

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--Ed L Cashin     PGP public key: http://noserose.net/e/pgp/

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