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in reply to Linked Lists and Perl

everytime i implemented some kind of linked list (single, double or circular), i ended up with code that is actually slower than using Arrays or hashes (yeah even hashes were faster). IMHO the bottleneck is that such customly build data structures like linked lists require too much OPs to be more effcient than perls own data structures. the only real reason to use linked lists, is that they fit best structure of your data.