Performance analysis
Let's accept that we are impatient. Rather, we are becoming more and more impatient with each year. Part of this is due to the availability of processors that are a zillion times faster than the previous ones and come in pairs in almost every computer. Buying a single core machine these days is almost impossible. Computer hardware is faster than ever. Software developers have to put in extra effort to put these new powers to good use.
"Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs" said Niklaus Wirth. He was absolutely right in the title. If you add the word 'faster' to all the words in the equation mentioned earlier, it would result in "Faster Algorithms + Faster Data Structures = Faster Programs".
For a moment, forget whatever ...
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