From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 07:13:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] add UNLEAK annotation for reducing leak false positives
Message-ID: <2320e1ea-4a8a-543c-7b9e-c40d6c07288a@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170912150541.fkgnxddv6z223h3d@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Tuesday 12 September 2017 08:35 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> But theta-well isn't a pun. :P 

:)

> It is true that prepending to a linked list is also Θ(1), but I'm not
> sure if it's carelessness that causes many programmers to use big-O.
> It's that what we care about is worst-case performance. So knowing that
> we have a lower bound isn't usually that interesting. What we want to
> know is whether it will blow up in our face as "n" gets large.

This seems quite acceptable.

> Plus typing non-ascii characters is annoying. :)

I expected this to be a reason. :)

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Kaartic