Data structures efficiency
Telerik Academy Alpha

 

DSA

 Table of contents

Comparing Data Structures

 Big-O

 Comparison of operations

 Array sorting comparison

 More information

Choosing a data structure

 Choosing the right data structure

  • Arrays (T[])
    • Use when fixed number of elements should be processed by index
  • Resizable array lists (List<T>)
    • Use when elements should be added and processed by index
  • Linked lists (LinkedList<T>)
    • Use when elements should be added at the both sides of the list
    • Otherwise use resizable array list (List<T>)

 Choosing the right data structure

  • Stacks (Stack<T>)
    • Use to implement LIFO (last-in-first-out) behavior
    • List<T> could also work well
  • Queues (Queue<T>)
    • Use to implement FIFO (first-in-first-out) behavior
    • LinkedList<T> could also work well
  • Hash table based dictionary (Dictionary<K,T>)
    • Use when key-value pairs should be added fast and searched fast by key
    • Elements in a hash table have no particular order

 Choosing the right data structure

  • Balanced search tree based dictionary (SortedDictionary<K,T>)
    • Use when key-value pairs should be added fast, searched fast by key and enumerated sorted by key
  • Hash table based set (HashSet<T>)
    • Use to keep a group of unique values, to add and check belonging to the set fast
    • Elements are in no particular order
  • Search tree based set (SortedSet<T>)
    • Use to keep a group of ordered unique values

Summary

 Summary

  • Algorithm complexity is rough estimation of the number of steps performed by given computation
    • Complexity can be
      • \( logarithmic \)
      • \( linear \)
      • \( n* log n \)
      • \( square \)
      • \( cubic \)
      • \( exponential \)
      • \( etc. \)

 Summary

  • Allows to estimating the speed of given code before its execution
    • Different data structures have different efficiency on different operations
    • The fastest add / find / delete structure is the hash table - O(1) for all these operations

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