>Can we say that since every real-life data structure size is bounded by some constant, it is O(1)? If not, why?
>>You may, yes.
Very powerful thinking coming from someone who is "a software performance expert. He ranks among the top 2% of scientists globally (Stanford/Elsevier 2025) and is one of GitHub's top 1000 most followed developers"
>Can we say that since every real-life data structure size is bounded by some constant, it is O(1)? If not, why?
>>You may, yes.
Very powerful thinking coming from someone who is "a software performance expert. He ranks among the top 2% of scientists globally (Stanford/Elsevier 2025) and is one of GitHub's top 1000 most followed developers"