Yo momma Memes

The classic "yo momma" joke gets a computer science upgrade! Binary trees are efficient data structures with O(log n) operations, while linked lists have O(n) linear time complexity. So flattening a tree to a list is basically making something efficient into something... not so efficient. It's the algorithmic equivalent of taking the expressway and somehow ending up on a dirt road. Every CS grad who spent weeks optimizing their search algorithms just died a little inside.