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A comment on Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989). Parent comment

Re:Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989) by anarazel on Saturday September 16, 2017 @06:30PM (#15267108)
"Lists", presumably referencing a linked list, have horrible cache locality. You were thinking of an array?
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Re:Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989) by yen223 on Saturday September 16, 2017 @07:31PM (#15267332)
The rise of Python and similar languages have muddied the distinction between "lists" and "arrays".
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