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Created May 29, 2017 11:48 — forked from psayre23/gist:c30a821239f4818b0709
Runtime Complexity of Java Collections
Below are the Big O performance of common functions of different Java Collections.
List | Add | Remove | Get | Contains | Next | Data Structure
---------------------|------|--------|------|----------|------|---------------
ArrayList | O(1) | O(n) | O(1) | O(n) | O(1) | Array
LinkedList | O(1) | O(1) | O(n) | O(n) | O(1) | Linked List
CopyOnWriteArrayList | O(n) | O(n) | O(1) | O(n) | O(1) | Array
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rondy / Effective_Engineer.md
Last active March 16, 2026 13:08

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

Effective Engineer - Notes

What's an Effective Engineer?

@austinogilvie
austinogilvie / Principles-of-Adult-Behavior.md
Created June 22, 2016 18:54

Principles of Adult Behavior

  1. Be patient. No matter what.
  2. Don’t badmouth: Assign responsibility, not blame. Say nothing of another you wouldn’t say to him.
  3. Never assume the motives of others are, to them, less noble than yours are to you.
  4. Expand your sense of the possible.
  5. Don’t trouble yourself with matters you truly cannot change.
  6. Expect no more of anyone than you can deliver yourself.
  7. Tolerate ambiguity.
  8. Laugh at yourself frequently.
@macintux
macintux / Distributed systems meta-list.md
Last active February 20, 2026 10:38
List of distributed systems reading lists, plus miscellanea
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active March 14, 2026 05:20
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD
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hay / gist:1351230
Last active February 17, 2026 15:45
Enterprisify your Java Class Names!
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