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by dilyevsky 1763 days ago
They also have absolutely terrible performance due to poor cache locality and putting pressure on GC
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pjmlp 1762 days ago
There are many ways to implement a list, including backed by arrays.

That is what those CS algorithm and data structures lectures are for.

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puddingforears 1763 days ago
They make a great stack, though. Cheap to use and easy to implement.
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snovv_crash 1763 days ago
Use a deque at least and amortize the heap allocations...
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puddingforears 1763 days ago
With generics I could justify the extra engineering work to make such a deque!
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bouncycastle 1763 days ago
Source?
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mseepgood 1763 days ago
CS201
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bouncycastle 1762 days ago
Ok genius, explain how exactly what the OP meant?
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