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earl on Sept 27, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Rock an Algorithms Interview

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?

wnight on Sept 27, 2011 [–]

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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