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From: Garry Hodgson <garry@sage.att.com>
To: "'Ocaml Mailing List'" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: Re: [Caml-list] Efficiency of 'a list
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 19:52:59 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2003050519531052178804@kestrel.sage.att.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <660B0E4B-7E07-11D7-A11A-000393863F70@exomi.com>

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

> > 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.

FWIW, i believe this is fixed in the forthcoming 2.6 kernel.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-05 23:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-02 19:27 Eray Ozkural
2003-05-03  5:43 ` Mattias Waldau
2003-05-03  8:16   ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2003-05-03 14:12   ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2003-05-03 18:43     ` Mattias Waldau
2003-05-03 20:01       ` Eray Ozkural
2003-05-03 23:17       ` Eray Ozkural
2003-05-04  2:08       ` cashin
2003-05-04  4:08         ` alc
2003-05-04  5:32           ` Ed L Cashin
2003-05-04  6:46           ` [Caml-list] Two types of efficiency (Was Efficiency of 'a list) Mattias Waldau
2003-05-04  7:35             ` John Max Skaller
2003-05-04 11:52               ` Olivier Andrieu
2003-05-05 11:04                 ` John Max Skaller
2003-05-04 16:48               ` brogoff
2003-05-04  7:43             ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2003-05-04 12:50               ` Eray Ozkural
2003-05-04 12:48             ` Eray Ozkural
2003-05-05  7:31             ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2003-05-05 11:11               ` Mattias Waldau
2003-05-05 13:17                 ` John Max Skaller
2003-05-05 11:49               ` Eray Ozkural
2003-05-05 11:57               ` Yaron M. Minsky
2003-05-05 13:32                 ` John Max Skaller
2003-05-06  2:49                   ` Nicolas Cannasse
2003-05-06 12:30                     ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2003-05-07  2:05                       ` Nicolas Cannasse
2003-05-05 16:38                 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2003-05-05 18:05                   ` Eray Ozkural
2003-05-06 13:28                     ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2003-05-13 11:35                   ` [Caml-list] Data Structure Libraries (was: Two types of efficiency) Oleg Trott
2003-05-04  7:55           ` [Caml-list] Efficiency of 'a list Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2003-05-04 10:56             ` Neel Krishnaswami
2003-05-04 12:56               ` Eray Ozkural
2003-05-04 13:35                 ` Falk Hueffner
2003-05-04 12:38           ` Eray Ozkural
2003-05-04  8:07         ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2003-05-04 15:54           ` Ed L Cashin
2003-05-05 23:52           ` Garry Hodgson [this message]
2003-05-03 20:03   ` Eray Ozkural
2003-05-03 21:13 ` Lauri Alanko
2003-05-03 22:03   ` Eray Ozkural

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