n^2 is probably the worst offender of these algorithms - it's fast enough to get into production and slow enough to blow up once you start using it. Rockstar i

n^2 is probably the worst offender of these algorithms - it's fast enough to get into production and slow enough to blow up once you start using it. Rockstar infamously wasted five minutes loading GTAV because they had an n^2 algorithm in the startup sequence.