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From: Tonnerre <tonnerre@thundrix.ch>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: single linked list header in kernel?
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 02:19:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041014001934.GB19436@thundrix.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <416D7A0E.50503@nortelnetworks.com>

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Salut,

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 12:55:10PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> I wonder how many places use the double-linked lists because they're there, 
> not because they actually need them.  If its significant, there could be 
> some space savings due to only needing one pointer rather than two.

Actually, linked lists are mostly  used in structure sets, which means
that one  pointer more or less  doesn't hurt too much,  compared to an
O(N)  overhead  in  certain  edit  actions on  the  list  (prepending,
deleting, moving).

Seems that  you can  only write  small *or* fast  code. But  that's no
news.

			    Tonnerre

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-14  0:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-12 18:15 single linked list header in kernel? Chris Friesen
2004-10-13  5:50 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-10-13 14:57   ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-13 18:25     ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-10-13 18:55       ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-14  0:19         ` Tonnerre [this message]
2004-10-14  0:16       ` Tonnerre
2004-10-14  4:18         ` Kevin Puetz
2004-10-14 21:39           ` Antonio Vargas

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