I would much prefer people know the scale of these numbers than know big O notation. The number of times I've seen big O used as a hammer because everything loo

I would much prefer people know the scale of these numbers than know big O notation. The number of times I've seen big O used as a hammer because everything looks like a nail can be frustrating. This is doubly true on embedded systems where N > 3000 tends to be the less common case. Most of the time when I do performance profiles it's a 'flat profile' because the majority of the time is lost thrashing the L1/L2 cache.