Re: Offtopic: How to Design Programming Tests

[Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at>]

> > compare the advantages and disadvantages of arrays
> > versus linked lists.
 
Noel Welsh:
> This is a good question.  My answer would be:
> - random access time O(1) vs O(n)
> - queue/stack operations O(n) vs O(1)
> - memory usage: array better
> Anything I missed?

iteration: forward - lists slightly better, backwards - depends on the list :)

(is there actually any CPU which is faster or equally fast on indexed array 
access than linked list iteration? assuming typical good languages and
compilers)