Swift Data Structure and Algorithms

Asymptotic analysis

When building a service, it's imperative that it finds information quickly, otherwise it could mean the difference between success or failure for your product. There is no single data structure or algorithm that offers optimal performance in all use cases. In order to know which is the best solution, we need to have a way to evaluate how long it takes an algorithm to run. Almost any algorithm is sufficiently efficient when running on a small number of inputs. When we're talking about measuring the cost or complexity of an algorithm, what we're really talking about is performing an analysis of the algorithm when the input sets are very large. Analyzing what happens as the number of inputs approaches infinity is referred to as ...