On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:45:48 -0400, Greg Freemyer said: > You can take that excellent code into your user space app and test it to your > heart's content. Not only can you do that, for something like a linked list > evaluation, you should do that. You have implied "tested" code is code that > compiles. If a developer wanted to replace the hashed linked link > implementation it would be expected that they had done significant testing of > the new code in user space with highly varied loads to show what they work > well > on and when the new code performs less well.
And in today's data structures lesson: 1) How is the kernel's linked-list implementation different than what they usually teach in Data Structures 101? 2) Why do we do this? (Consider it a Eudyptula-type challenge - figure it out *for yourself* rather than spamming the list. ;)
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