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| You're Doing It Wrong: CS in the real world (queue.acm.org) | ||
| recommended by 2 users | 2010 | 273 points by fragmede | performance | original thread | | ||
| 2 users recommended this thread. What they said: |
| RiderOfGiraffes Jul 11, 2010 | on: Theory vs Practice: Making algorithms claimed 'optimal',… | context |
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timv Apr 22, 2013 | on: B-Heap vs. Binary Heap (2010) | context
There's some useful comments from last time this popped on to the HN front page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1426211 |
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I think this is pretty much identical to the subject being discussed here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1426211
There's a lot of discussion there already, and it might be worth reading it before commenting here and repeating all the arguments.
ADDED IN EDIT: Having gone and taken my own advice (for a change 8-) I prefer the other article because the diagrams are larger and in-line.