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Re:How to Rock an Algorithms Interview by earl on Monday September 26, 2011 @09:34PM (#3041434)
This algorithm fetish is just stupid. If a function / program isn't slow then it doesn't matter and if it's slow the dev will notice. I mean, come on -- is the dev not going to notice a practically infinite loop?
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Re:How to Rock an Algorithms Interview by wnight on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @02:12AM (#3042092)
It wouldn't be slow on "reasonable" testing datasets.

Do you time your app at various loads (including well beyond expectations), graph the performance and look for non-linear increases?

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