Re: Creationist software engineering? A frightening possibility!

In article <MPG.1d011bc34cd9080c98a848@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Randy Howard <randyhoward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>In article <1117181496.482945.218100@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>spinoza1111@xxxxxxxxx says...

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>The fact that you were never able to back up any of your claims, such
>as the episode not too long ago where you claimed that one of your
>more obviously braindead programming methods would be optimized by
>"any decent C compiler". When it was pointed out to you that ZERO
>optimizing C compilers on the market today would fix the obvious
>problem with the way you construct (intentionally) loops that
>exhibit exponential performance issues in the hopeless belief that
>the compiler would save you from your own stupidity, you refused
>to answer and called me a troll instead.

Nitpick: By "exponential performance", do you mean O(2**n)? the worst
I remember from previous discussions with Mr. Nilges (and I've been
lurking since the Data Quality Act (?) days) is O(n*n) -- which is not
good if there's something O(n), but .... is this standard use of the
term "exponential performance"?

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