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Discussion on: Using the big O notation in the wild

 
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Peter Nycander

Hmm, I wonder at what n you start to get enough collisions for it to matter in practice. I guess it is up to the implementation, and up to the browsers to create a good heuristic.

When I have used SpiderMonkey (and node.js to some extent) solve problems on kattis, I have never run into a problem of object lookup being a bottleneck. Maybe in some special case?

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tiborveres-ired

in practice it never causes problem
i suspect modern js engines are able to switch implementation based on the object "shape"