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I think it's probably fair to call kernel development niche? And the fact that Linux uses linked lists a lot is not necessarily a strong case for linked lists,
by staticassertion 7y ago
I think it's probably fair to call kernel development niche? And the fact that Linux uses linked lists a lot is not necessarily a strong case for linked lists, but just a matter of very specific constraints - like perhaps not wanting to optimize too much for underlying hardware?
- varjag 7y agoI used Linux kernel as an example of easily accessible, extremely well known, performance tuned open source project. Of course dynamic data structures are used in countless other applications, like DBMS, web servers and web browsers. Really in nearly any non-trivial codebase.