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krichman
on Oct 15, 2012
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Exotic data structures
I've curious, under what conditions is a smushed list useful?
mgsouth
on Oct 15, 2012
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Actually, this one is real. AKA "parity". Another example (with n=2) is to create a doubly-linked list while only storing one pointer (ptr = prev_node xor next_node).
krichman
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Oh, I hadn't made the connection between those and the general statement. Thanks for the clarification.
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