non-copy slices

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Rami Chowdhury <rami.chowdhury at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm not sure you're understanding the point others have been making. A
> list item is merely another reference to an existing object -- it
> doesn't copy the object in any way.
>

It still has to copy the reference, though.  That takes O(n) time if you're
taking a big slice.

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Daniel Stutzbach, Ph.D.
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