On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 10:09 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Open-coding stuff like this can easily work out to a loss, and I
> personally think we're overly dependent on List. It's not a
> particularly good abstraction, IMHO, and if we do a lot of work to
> start using it everywhere because a list is really an array, then what
> happens when somebody decides that a list really ought to be a
> skip-list, or a hash table, or some other crazy thing?
This paragraph was a bit garbled. I meant to say that open-coding can
be better than relying on a canned abstraction, but it came out the
other way around.
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Robert Haas
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