Big-O for Eight Year Olds? [duplicate]
问题 This question already has answers here : What is a plain English explanation of “Big O” notation? (39 answers) Closed 2 years ago . I'm asking more about what this means to my code. I understand the concepts mathematically, I just have a hard time wrapping my head around what they mean conceptually. For example, if one were to perform an O(1) operation on a data structure, I understand that the number of operations it has to perform won't grow because there are more items. And an O(n)