From: Matthias Buelow on
Victor V. Terber wrote:

> Does such a replacement of list by deque seem reasonable? Would you
> typically expect real-world performance changes?

If properly implemented, ordinary lists and doubly-linked lists have the
same performance characteristics for common operations. The only
advantage of a doubly-linked list is that you can traverse it backwards.

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