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From: alex@teeth.demon.co.uk (Alex Amsel)
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Subject: Re: Arrays or Linked Lists?
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 18:04:48 GMT
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On Tue, 13 May 1997 15:56:43 +0100, Gordon Bell
<gordonb@aisb.ed.ac.uk> did quoth at me:

>arrays for the object lists.  After 4 years at Uni Ive had it beaten in
>to me that it is best to use linked lists in most cases, especially when

In my experience at a good UK university, when it comes ro programming
issues  program efficiency is really only considered with high level
complex algorithms. Too much is 'beaten' into people. Use linked lists
if they are the best option for the job. Use arrays for quick coding
and to save memory allocation/fragmentation/speed.

Game/Demo programming is different from application development where
updates by multiple programmers is an important factor. In our case
program size, efficiency and development time is more important than
bloated Microsoft style solutions.


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