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Re^2: Data structures in Perl. A C programmer's perspective.by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) |
on Sep 09, 2013 at 18:59 UTC ( [id://1053079]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
When people talk about linked lists “storing data all over the place,” what they are really concerned about is locality of reference, i.e. minimizing the probability of a virtual-memory page faultNo. The linked list performance problem discussed in this thread was not caused by virtual-memory page faults, but by CPU cache misses.
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