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Re:Purely Functional Data Structure by Chris Okasaki [pdf] by amelius on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @02:16PM (#36128411)
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

-- Edsger W. Dijkstra

However, I do believe that astronomers put references to the actual instruments they used in their publications.

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Re:Purely Functional Data Structure by Chris Okasaki [pdf] by xmcqdpt2 on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @08:35PM (#36133093)
So do most algorithms papers that have benchmarks in them. It's not always useful though, because information about how this algorithm compares to some other one on a PDP-10 doesn't necessarily translate to modern machines.
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