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Re^4: [OT:] Is this Curriculum right?by LanX (Saint) |
on Nov 26, 2021 at 21:36 UTC ( [id://11139153]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
> Actually, linked lists have recently become completely unimportant! For how long? Things which were relevant in the 90s became unimportant because of hardware a dozen years later to reappear as relevant after the same time span again. Example:
Lessons:
All this doesn't justify not to study linked lists:
If you mean something with equidistant entries, how would you implement an array of strings of varying length without links? And how are these string-links less likely to cause cache misses?
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