Re: [Tutor] Complexity of list operations

2007-10-23 Thread Dave Kuhlman
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:17:33PM -0400, Danny Yoo wrote: [helpful explanation snipped] > > That being said, if all our operations are applied only at the end of the > list, the time complexity of those two operations look better. We can > argue for O(1) behavior under that particular restri

[Tutor] Complexity of list operations

2007-10-23 Thread Danny Yoo
>> Use list when you want a sequence of items indexed by sequential >> integers. Lists >> - preserve order >> - are fast for indexed lookup >> - are relatively slow (O(n)) for adding, deleting and searching (though >> for small lists this should not be a consideration) > > Are you sure they take O