From: Ed L Cashin <ecashin@uga.edu>
To: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@exomi.com>
Cc: "'Ocaml Mailing List'" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Efficiency of 'a list
Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 11:54:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87znm2u2pz.fsf@cs.uga.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <660B0E4B-7E07-11D7-A11A-000393863F70@exomi.com> (Ville-Pertti Keinonen's message of "Sun, 4 May 2003 11:07:07 +0300")
Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@exomi.com> writes:
>> 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.
>
> And this despite the fact that based on his rants, Linus apparently
> hates all cache-trashing pointer chasing (and Lisp, and garbage
> collection etc.).
I'm not going to be dragged into a linux advocacy argument. It
suffices to say: Lists are useful data structures, but there's no
getting around the need to know what you're doing.
Enough said. At least this is my last contribution to this thread.
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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 [this message]
2003-05-05 23:52 ` Garry Hodgson
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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