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Would a sleep(100000) at the top of the method implementation not count as a bug either?

• gkya 10y ago
  I don't see how this is relevant. That certainly is a bug if such a call is not a part of the algorithm. Here the function is correct in the sense that it returns as expected.
  • baddox 10y ago
    The function with a long sleep also returns as expected, and is just as much a part of that particular algorithm as the quadratic implementation.
  • astrodust 10y ago
    Quadratic performance is not part of the algorithm. End of story.
    • gkya 10y ago
      I am not your student and this is not a classroom. I really dislike that tone.
• nilved 10y ago
  How is that a bug? Unless sleep was a typo or something. A bug isn't related to performance, a bug is just a mistake.
  • baddox 10y ago
    This quadratic implementation was a mistake.
    • nilved 10y ago
      No it wasn't, the developer probably knew exactly what they were doing.