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by Mgccl 4807 days ago
true.

irrc there is only a constant factor of time difference between the two.

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Would you use a cache-oblivious datastructure that's 10x slower than its regular counterpart? Cache sizes don't change every day, I don't see the point.

In general there are lots of datastructures that are wonderful on paper but whose constant time factors make them infeasible in practice.