From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-04-05T04:53:57+09:00
Subject: Re: doubly linked list in Ruby?

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On 04 Apr 2005, at 12:39, Randy Kramer wrote:

> On Monday 04 April 2005 03:09 pm, Tim Hunter wrote:
>> Ruby arrays are incredibly more flexible than C arrays. You can insert
>> an element into an array _between_ two other elements.
>>
>> a = [1,2,3]
>> a[1,0] = 4	=> [1,4,2,3]
>>
>> You can delete an element from an array any number of ways. The
>> delete_at method works if you know the index of the element you want 
>> to
>> delete.
>
> But (just asking), what about performance?

Why do you care?

Until you've written the app and profiled it and found that Array 
insertion is slow, there's no point in attempting to optimize it.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

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