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Re:Much faster incremental apt updates by aidos on Sunday December 27, 2015 @09:42AM (#10797549)
This is great.

Even more so because after gem, or pip, or something (can't remember) had a similar issue a while ago (think they had an n2 algorithm) a lot of people jumped on it as being bad computer science. There were all sorts of calls about how web people were not real computer scientists.

Either way, good useful products were made and they've been further optimised. That's great. More of that more of the time.

Re:Much faster incremental apt updates by shadeless on Sunday December 27, 2015 @10:48AM (#10797723)
You're probably thinking of this, rubygems was optimized using a linked list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9195847