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Assorted Rants Tagged ‘Kinda Math’, page 1:

Some Big-Os are Bigger Than Others

Quote: “Strictly speaking, for real-world computers, every algorithm which completes in a finite time can be said to be O(1)
Another Quote: “now the difference because of unfortunate ‘jumps’ over (uncached at the time) memory can lead to a 100x+ (!) performance difference. However, it is still O(1) and is rarely taken into account during performance analysis”
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