Why Linked Lists Are an Interview Staple
Very interesting thread -- if you're the type of person who comes to the comments before deciding whether to read, I recommend it.<p>I'd also like to point out that today in 2019, linked lists perform like absolute dog shit in many real-world contexts even where they have the best big-O notation.<p>Somebody jumping straight to a solution based on linked lists without at least mentioning memory latency is a sure-fire sign that they have never done detailed CPU performance work. (Which is not necessarily a requirement for most programmers, but it's one piece of signal among others).