[racket] Value Extraction from Lists vs. Structures

Structure access is implemented by taking the address of the structure
and adding an offset giving the memory address of the field. Addition
is an O(1) operation, as is memory referencing.

HTH,
N.

PS: Neither of the above statements are completely true, but they
suffice for a simple machine model.

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:42 AM, Luke Jordan <luke.jordan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm reading HtDP 29.3.
> I get how value extraction from lists works in O(n) time, but how does
> extraction from structures work in O(1)?
> Thanks (for being the "help me with HtDP" mailing list as well as the Racket
> mailing list...)
> Luke