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Re: iptables -A or iptables -I?



also sprach Blars Blarson <blarson@blars.org> [2004.10.19.2019 +0200]:
> He asked about inserting at the beginning vs appending.  If I was
> designing this data structure, I'd most likely use a single linked
> list where inserting at the beginning would be faster for long lists.
> (The latter needs to traverse the list.)

If I am designing data structures to hold long lists, I most
certainly keep a pointer to the last element somewhere. Of course,
then, it doesn't matter whether you insert or append, as then you
have to update 2 pointers anyway.

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