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Date:      Mon, 22 Sep 1997 16:45:30 -0600
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files src/sys/dev/vx if_vx.c if_vxreg.h src/sys/i386/apm apm.c src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC files.i386 src/sys/i386/eisa 3c5x9.c aha1742.c aic7770.c bt74x.c eisaconf.c eisaconf.h if_fea.c if_vx_eisa.c src/sys/i386/i386 autoconf.c ... 
Message-ID:  <199709222245.QAA05197@pluto.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Sep 1997 16:41:04 MDT." <199709222241.QAA04073@rocky.mt.sri.com> 

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>> Nope.  It has worst case running time of O(n) but average running time of
>> O(h) where h << n.
>
>Assuming that the average is one element on the list, yes.

No, assuming that h is smaller than n by a bit.  Even if it's 10 or 20, or
50 that's not much work to do.

>Only for scheduling timeouts, and I still don't buy that the advantage
>is *that* great to make us completely un-backwards compatible with old
>BSD systems.  But, I'll shutup now until I have a better solution.

Fair enough.

>Nate

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Justin T. Gibbs
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