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Who cares about time complexity (lemmy.world)
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[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 weeks ago

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 4 weeks ago

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

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