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Question: At what point in a career do you expect someone to have gone from "I know Big O" to "I know how this data structure is laid out in memory on this OS?"
by iandanforth 7y ago
Question: At what point in a career do you expect someone to have gone from "I know Big O" to "I know how this data structure is laid out in memory on this OS?"
My experience says really good engineers know the latter, but I'd like to hear if this holds for others.
- bauerd 7y agoHow data structures are laid out in memory has nothing to do with the operating system
- blattimwind 7y agoOS typically dictates ABI, ABI dictates memory layout of structures, among other things.