Re:Galactic Algorithm
by pfdietz on Saturday October 05, 2019 @06:49AM
(#21164839)
This sort of thing highlights the difference between theoretical and practical algorithms.
In practical algorithms, one does not ignore constants, one takes into account actual hardware (particularly cache effects), and one does not ignore real world distributions of inputs.
In practical algorithms, one does not ignore constants, one takes into account actual hardware (particularly cache effects), and one does not ignore real world distributions of inputs.