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On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Dustin Sallings wrote:

&gt; 
&gt; 	I'm trying to implement an LRU cache and I'm using a list to keep up 
&gt; with the accesses.  I'm using filter to remove the item for 
&gt; repositioning it.  That's very slow.
&gt; 
&gt; 	Is there a better way to efficiently move a list item to the front, or 
&gt; should I just implement a linked list to meet my requirements?
&gt; 
&gt; 

If delete needs to be fast, consider using a different data structure.  
Look at the Set, Map, and Hashtbl libraries.

Brian


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