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"things like Linq" It's really easy to accidentally create a simple Linq query that underneath turns into O(N^2) and suddenly the production application crawls

• golergka 8y ago
  That's why you should know where to write code optimized for perfomance and where to write code optimized for readability. It's the latter 95% of the time.
  • fsloth 8y ago
    "It's the latter 95% of the time." Still, that's no excuse to write readable code that for example runs in O(N^2) when there would be just as readable O(N) alternatives.
    • golergka 8y ago
      This is a true statement, which very rarely applies to actual Linq usage.