Lists revisited

We present three cache-conscious implementations of STL standard compliant lists. Until now, one could either find simple doubly linked list implementations that easily cope with standard strict requirements, or theoretical approaches that do not take into account any of these requirements in their design. In contrast, we have merged both approaches, paying special attention to iterators constraints. In this article, the competitiveness of our implementations is evinced with an extensive experimental analysis. This shows, for instance, 5 to 10 times faster traversals and 3 to 5 times faster internal sort.