> In many cases it's guaranteed to be small or small-ish. And in many cases it's assumed to be small, but not guaranteed. That's where the trouble lies. A cla

> In many cases it's guaranteed to be small or small-ish. And in many cases it's assumed to be small, but not guaranteed. That's where the trouble lies. A classic example is Windows using a quadratic algorithm for arranging desktop icons that caused severe performance issues when users had many icons on their desktop. https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-Dev-Performance/issues/80 https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-Dev-Performance/issues/...