Re: Merging Linked Lists
"Damo" <cormacdebarra@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Thanks for the words of advice. I think i'll put some more thought into
which one I use as I need some of the advantages of several of them.
With Linked lists it takes O(1) to insert into a list at an arbirtrary
position, right?
Are we talking about linked lists, or are we talking about Sun's class,
java.util.LinkedList? Inserting into java.util.LinkedList at an arbitrary
position is O(n), the implementation has to "seek" to that arbitrary
position. A different implementation of linked list might have different
asymptotic runtime performance.
My plan was to iterate through the lists , if the first list contains
the current item in the second list,skip it or else insert it into the
corrsponding position in the first list.
Given that you said the list are unsorted, how would you determine what
the "corresponding" position is?
this should I think return one List with no duplicates
Yes, but using a HashSet will probably be faster.
- Oliver
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