Why is algorithm analysis still important if all computers are

>>61083001
Dumb frogposter

>>61083001
Because if you're running something billions of times, every byte of memory, every CPU cycle, every millisecond counts.

>>61083001

because an algorithm that is twice as fast is still going to run twice as fast no matter how fast the computer is

>>61083071
/thread

OP is why everything runs like fucking garbage nowadays even though we have computers orders of magnitude faster than a decade ago.

>>61083267
obv. not because of People like OP bevause he cared to ask and is now informed about this Issue

>>61083001
t. Electron developer

>>61083001
I think this is the very thing mentioned in every single course in algorithms.

It's very easy to write code that will take a near-infinite (or infinite) amount of time to run, or code that will use all of your memory.

Even if you have a computer with unlimited processing power and unlimited memory, it's still important to make sure your algorithm at least gets the correct result.

1. Because Moore's law is dead.
2. Because "fast" still isn't enough for bad enough time complexity.

>>61083001

A demonstration of why algorithm analysis is still important:

1. Open a Python interpreter.
2. Type:

def fib(n): return 1 if n < 2 else fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)

fib(100)

3. Watch your machine take hours to calculate something as trivial as the 100th Fibonacci number.

>>61083001

it's only important if you are scaling it because

1. you are simulating some thing very big either scientifically or muh gaymen

2. you are running some webshit with 1gazillion users off of VC money

it's completely useless otherwise, which is why muh bootcamps never teach it to code monkeys 2.0

>>61083071
This

>>61084672
>SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Really made me think!

>>61084672
my computor did this in 10 secnds

>>61085684
You have to wait an hour, retard

quantum computers WHEN

>>61085708
Don't blame me for your syntax error.

>>61085734
There is no syntax error

>>61085771
You're right, I humbly apologize.