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"Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small." Rob Pike, creator of Go.
by mdemare 6y ago
"Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small." Rob Pike, creator of Go.
- saagarjha 6y agoNot at the scale of his employer.
- hiptobecubic 6y agoYou don't need to be Google scale. Google scale is just "medium large startup" scale replicated across a zillion regions. Gmail has an enormous amount of data behind it, but it's not like calling foo.sort() is going to be iterating over billions of accounts.