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Wowfunhappytoday at 5:33 PM1 replyview on HN

True, but I don't really think that accounts for the increase in memory usage.


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hinkleytoday at 6:12 PM

No but it's the biggest one that's easy to forget.

Feature factory work increases the surface area of every API you touch, and the proliferation of pre-written APIs expands the number of APIs you touch. The combination of the two is not quite O(n²) but the exponent is more than 1, so it's still geometric.