I am not at all surprised. Kids these days have no idea what CPUs can do. ;) I periodically have interview candidates work through problems involving binary se

I am not at all surprised. Kids these days have no idea what CPUs can do. ;) I periodically have interview candidates work through problems involving binary search, then switch to bounded and ask them how to make it go faster over N elements, where N is < 1e3. The answer is "just linear search, because CPUs really like to do that".