"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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> Chris Huff <chr### [at] maccom> wrote:
>
<sniped stuff about dynamically allocated arrays and linked lists>
>
>   And it's not a clumsy solution. It's a clean and smart solution. Using
> a (hand-coded) dynamic array is the clumsy solution.
>

    JPDA[1] - How is hand-coding a list any more clumsy and any less clean
and smart that hand coding a dynamic array, exactly ?
    All a linked list is is a fancy dynamic array (in fact there's probably
more work (and, therefore, more chance of screwing something up) in hand
writing a linked list - the dynamic array just needs to keep track of the
current used and max sizes, a linked list requires maintaining previous
and/or next node pointers).
    The only benefit you get with a linked list is improved random access
speeds.

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Scott Hill.
NC Graphics (Cambridge) Ltd.
http://www.ncgraphics.co.uk

[1] JPDA - Just Playing Devils Advocate.

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