Continuing in the series on linked lists that started with parts one and two, today I’ll make the first serious optimization pass on the LinkedList implementation. Read on for how successful this is.
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Linked Lists: Part 2
Dec 21
Last time I began covering linked lists in AS3. As anyone who has ever taken a data structures class can tell you, this is definitely a core data structure. As such, it has numerous benefits compared to other single-dimensional data structures like arrays and hash tables. The Array class in AS3 is far from a C/C++ array, which is simply a contiguous block of memory. AS3’s Array class blurs the lines between arrays, linked lists, and hash tables. So as I implement a linked list class in AS3 it is quite interesting to see how the normal pros and cons change. I’ve expanded on the LinkedList class I started last week and done some more preliminary performance testing. Read on to see the updates.
Linked Lists: Part I
Dec 18
I’ve written before about linked lists when I covered free lists. There were massive speedups to be had there, but that article mostly covered the performance costs of allocation and deallocation. Today is part one of a series that more generally covers linked lists.
