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rustybolttoday at 1:01 PM4 repliesview on HN

This feels like a very elaborate way of saying that doing O(N) work is not a problem, but doing O(N) network calls is.


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password4321today at 1:14 PM

As another example, a SQL Server optimization per https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/statements/set-n...:

> For stored procedures that contain several statements that don't return much actual data, or for procedures that contain Transact-SQL loops, setting SET NOCOUNT to ON can provide a significant performance boost, because network traffic is greatly reduced.

Neywinytoday at 1:23 PM

Rather I think their point is that since O(N) is really X * N, it's not the N that gets you, it's the X.

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jstummbilligtoday at 1:09 PM

It being so obvious, why is sqlite not the de facto standard?

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zffrtoday at 1:35 PM

IMO the page is concise and well written. I wouldn’t call it very elaborate.

Maybe the page could have been shorter, but not my much.

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