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Really? With flat array, once you've found the insertion/deletion point, you've to move (ave.) 50% of the array one place to accommodate/close up the array, but only a coupe of pointers to write for the linked list. Just wildly differing constants then.

(I guess i was think about trees rather than linked lists.)

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