• yetAnotherUser@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Why would you use a pile out of all data structures, only adding is in ϴ(1), searching is in ϴ(n).

    I suggest throwing the clothes on the floor and remembering the spot they landed on. That’s ϴ(1) for adding and for searching, far superior to a stack of clothes on a chair.

    Side note: fuck big O notation, use big ϴ notation >:(

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      1 year ago

      i think that’s the point, it’s not a “messy pile”, it’s actually a completely organized cache; depending on the replacement policy it can appear messy, but you keep the offset and address stored locally for fast access and more hits (i remember that i put some arguably clean socks somewhere in the corner over there)