[rescue] slow java code...an example of why it might be happ ening

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:26:15PM -0500, Michael A. Turner wrote:

> 	As a recent graduate with a CS degree I must say that you are
> exactly correct. I only had one class with a section involving Big O theory
> of optimizing and it was taught by a teacher that is best described as
> brutal so everyone avoided his class. The other instructor that taught the
> same class, which everyone took, did not teach this at all.

Big O notation.  I had one class that covered that.  It was a real waste
of time.  I take that back.  I had two classes that covered it.  The
first (a CS class) was a waste of my time.  The second class was
Numerical Analysis (a math class).  That was a brutal class.