alt Hacker NewsIf you don't know enough to design a data structure, requirements are missing and someone talking to the client is dropping the ball big time.
If you don't know enough to design a data structure, requirements are missing and someone talking to the client is dropping the ball big time.
Where did I say any of that?
I'm saying that if you care about performance, data structures should be designed with approach specific tradeoffs in mind. And like I've said above, in typical business apps, it's ok to start with data structures because (a) performance is usually not a problem, (b) staying close to the domain is cleaner.