[Newbies] Iterating and removing items from OrderedCollections

Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at vpri.org
Thu Sep 18 18:55:36 UTC 2008


At Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:38:52 +0100,
Marcin Tustin wrote:
> 
>     No in two reasons; 1) he wasn't talking about removing items in the
>     middle
> 
> Look at the original example.

  Right.  But still I think suggesting to use LinkedList here is not a
good idea.

>     and 2) OrderedCollection is usually more efficient than the
>     naive LinkedList, as less dereferencing.  (And, it could get more
>     benefits from using array manipulation primitives like
>     replaceFrom:to:, but it can't at least for addFirst:.)
> 
> I think this would be an empirical question.

  Exacly.  Measure the performance before suggesting a complex solution.

-- Yoshiki


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