We recently had a HN article about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339 Some amazing person found th

We recently had a HN article about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339 Some amazing person found that the load time of GTA V Online was awfully slow. It was slow because the developers put in a quadratic function at a time when the iteration object was small. But over time that object grew and so grew the load times quadratically until it was unbearable. And it was unbearable for millions of GTA V Online users. I fully agree that the accidentally quadratic functions will eventually come back to bite you/the user.