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by mrbill29 2575 days ago
The only time this information is really helpful is if you care about optimization. If most of the data you deal with is within 1000 items, or there's no time/hardware constraint, then this isn't super helpful. But if you're trying to take a function that costs you tons of CPU time down, there may be some value in knowing how it all works under the hood, and how to improve it.