On Friday, February 7, 2014 8:44:43 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Roy Smith wrote: > > Dave Angel wrote: > >> list does not promise better than O(1) behavior > > I'm not aware of any list implementations, in any language, that > > promises better than O(1) behavior for any operations. Perhaps there is > > O(j), where you just imagine the operation was performed?
> I have a printer that executes in O(1/N) time, where N is the number > of marbles the sysadmin (me!) has lost. The less sanity I have, the > more printouts it produces. And the less printouts it produces, the > more marbles I lose trying to figure out WHY? WHY? WHY?!? Heh! Nice to know I have company! Thought I was the only one who lost hair at the printer's free-paper-munificience -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
