> you're just given some basic data structures that handle pretty much everything under the sun, and you go from there
This only works because the size of your n is small, possibly a few hundred, so it doesn't matter. When you start dealing with millions or billions of records this stuff matters. Quite a lot.
So really, it's not the language, it's the size of your data - or the size of n that matters.
This only works because the size of your n is small, possibly a few hundred, so it doesn't matter. When you start dealing with millions or billions of records this stuff matters. Quite a lot.
So really, it's not the language, it's the size of your data - or the size of n that matters.