Sunday, September 22, 2019

data structures - Array versus linked-list

Why would someone want to use a linked-list over an array?




Coding a linked-list is, no doubt, a bit more work than using an array and one may wonder what would justify the additional effort.



I think insertion of new elements is trivial in a linked-list but it's a major chore in an array. Are there other advantages to using a linked list to store a set of data versus storing it in an array?



This question is not a duplicate of this question because the other question is asking specifically about a particular Java class while this question is concerned with the general data structures.

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