From: Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>
To: "Lars Nilsson" <chamaeleon@adelphia.net>, <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] time complexity on basic data types
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 01:50:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01082401522806.02716@ice> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002d01c12c23$2179ea40$0200a8c0@buf.adelphia.net>
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Lars Nilsson wrote:
>At the risk of making a fool of myself in public, is there such a thing as
>insertion in a list at all in Ocaml? From what I have seen there is only
>concatenation of a single element and a list (::), and operations would have
>to be defined with this by means recursion/iteration. If this is the case, I
>assume insertion at some point in a list would have O(n) complexity in the
>general case? If not, what am I missing (@ being something other than I
>think?)
You are right, only :: is possible. So insertion at arbitrary positions is O(n)
time.
Gerd
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-24 0:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-23 17:27 Krishnaswami, Neel
2001-08-23 17:35 ` Xavier Leroy
2001-08-23 22:29 ` Lars Nilsson
2001-08-23 23:50 ` Gerd Stolpmann [this message]
2001-08-24 12:27 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
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2001-08-23 16:16 Collin Monahan
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