Timeline for Should I be using any algorithm to sort/find items, or use a language's built-in ways?
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| Dec 13, 2017 at 7:03 | answer | added | user204677 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 9, 2016 at 0:22 | answer | added | Erik Eidt | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 8, 2016 at 23:57 | vote | accept | Martin Frøhlich | ||
| Jan 8, 2016 at 23:42 | comment | added | Martin Maat | In some cases it would be valid to roll your own code instead of using something that is already available. If you need some small thing you can do yourself and doing it yourself would prevent the introduction of a new dependency on an external library into your application, it could prove to be a lot cheaper to do it yourself. Versioning, licencing, not having the source code, being bound to what is offered, all this can be a pain. Just weigh the pros against the cons. | |
| Jan 8, 2016 at 23:30 | answer | added | Ixrec | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 8, 2016 at 23:28 | answer | added | Jerry Coffin | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jan 8, 2016 at 23:11 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 8, 2016 at 23:04 | comment | added | gardenhead | In school, you will learn how to implement a lot of algorithms and data structures. In the real world, if you ever find yourself implementing these, you're probably doing something wrong, because there's already a library for it. 99% percent of the time it's better to use a library (don't reinvent the wheel), because it's easier to maintain, and almost certainly more optimized than what you would have written. | |
| Jan 8, 2016 at 22:54 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 8, 2016 at 22:51 | history | asked | Martin Frøhlich | CC BY-SA 3.0 |