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Re:When Big O Fools You by hinkley on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @07:51PM (#12348699)
The awful thing about writing benchmarks is that if you don't give the worst case example, people give you shit for coming up with metrics that say whatever you want to say.

If you give metrics for the case that should be worst for your argument, people give you shit about using such a stupid example.

There's no way to avoid someone giving you grief no matter what you do.

Re:When Big O Fools You by andrewflnr on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @09:03PM (#12348959)
Um, give both?
Re:When Big O Fools You by hinkley on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @10:54PM (#12349367)
Then both groups agree that your examples are terrible ;)