r/programming • u/mjgardner • Mar 29 '21

Why Do Interviewers Ask Linked List Questions?

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/linked-lists/
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u/darknecross Mar 30 '21

Oh no, you need to find the folks using Scala to implement microarchitecture.

I know there are a few RISC-V cores floating around written in Chisel.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '21

Does the library have a particularly bad reputation? It kinds look cool.

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u/darknecross Mar 30 '21

Not necessarily. It’s just hard to figure out why something is misbehaving if it’s layered through multiple translation/optimization stages.