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Who cares about time complexity (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by qaz@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think, their point (and also my experience) is that you get taught about it in university a lot more than about simple loops, so it feels more important even though you rarely use it in reality.

Same thing goes for linked lists and inheritance...

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Linked lists are encountered somewhat frequently in low level systems programming.