To be fair, in my experience it is often the case that asymptotic complexity is a good proxy for real-world performance, even for small values of n. Not always, but often.
I think it's fine that the academic courses focus a bit more on what's better in theory than in practice, because there are always caveats to "in practice"; the person who writes the special-purpose genomics libraries was also once a new grad.
I think it's fine that the academic courses focus a bit more on what's better in theory than in practice, because there are always caveats to "in practice"; the person who writes the special-purpose genomics libraries was also once a new grad.