>I am not arguing against LL. I am just saying that it isn't 'lunacy' to understand basic performance characteristics of your software. It's not: it's very imp

>I am not arguing against LL. I am just saying that it isn't 'lunacy' to understand basic performance characteristics of your software. It's not: it's very important. >Your post essentially came off, at least to me, as "people are crazy for wanting ot use a more efficient data structure". My point was more that people aren't necessarily crazy for using an LL. I don't, however, think that anybody is crazy for choosing not to use one for perf reasons. I guess what I'm saying is that AFAICT, we're entirely in agreement, and I have no idea why we thought we weren't.