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More specifically, the linked lists are too inefficient for modern computing to be the default data structure. Not enough locality, too much jumping around memory. Reality is a tree, but to organize it, you have to convert it into arrays, maps, and matrix multiplication.



Reality is a graph. We understand it as a multi-tree. But we write it in lists.


The reality of a computer is an array since memory is sequential addresses and programs deal with data in memory.




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