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From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
	"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] add UNLEAK annotation for reducing leak false positives
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 12:43:14 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2320e1ea-4a8a-543c-7b9e-c40d6c07288a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170912150541.fkgnxddv6z223h3d@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Tuesday 12 September 2017 08:35 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> But theta-well isn't a pun. :P 

:)

> It is true that prepending to a linked list is also Θ(1), but I'm not
> sure if it's carelessness that causes many programmers to use big-O.
> It's that what we care about is worst-case performance. So knowing that
> we have a lower bound isn't usually that interesting. What we want to
> know is whether it will blow up in our face as "n" gets large.

This seems quite acceptable.

> Plus typing non-ascii characters is annoying. :)

I expected this to be a reason. :)

---
Kaartic

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-13  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-05 13:01 [PATCH 0/10] towards clean leak-checker output Jeff King
2017-09-05 13:03 ` [PATCH 01/10] test-lib: --valgrind should not override --verbose-log Jeff King
2017-09-05 13:04 ` [PATCH 02/10] test-lib: set LSAN_OPTIONS to abort by default Jeff King
2017-09-05 13:04 ` [PATCH 03/10] add: free leaked pathspec after add_files_to_cache() Jeff King
2017-09-05 13:04 ` [PATCH 04/10] update-index: fix cache entry leak in add_one_file() Jeff King
2017-09-05 13:04 ` [PATCH 05/10] config: plug user_config leak Jeff King
2017-09-05 13:04 ` [PATCH 06/10] reset: make tree counting less confusing Jeff King
2017-09-05 13:04 ` [PATCH 07/10] reset: free allocated tree buffers Jeff King
2017-09-05 13:04 ` [PATCH 08/10] repository: free fields before overwriting them Jeff King
2017-09-05 13:05 ` [PATCH 09/10] set_git_dir: handle feeding gitdir to itself Jeff King
2017-09-07 19:06   ` Brandon Williams
2017-09-05 13:05 ` [PATCH 10/10] add UNLEAK annotation for reducing leak false positives Jeff King
2017-09-05 22:05   ` Stefan Beller
2017-09-07  9:17     ` Jeff King
2017-09-07 20:38       ` Stefan Beller
2017-09-12 14:34     ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-09-12 15:05       ` Jeff King
2017-09-13  7:13         ` Kaartic Sivaraam [this message]
2017-09-06 17:16   ` Martin Ågren
2017-09-07  9:00     ` Jeff King
2017-09-12 13:41   ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-09-12 15:29     ` Jeff King
2017-09-13  6:44       ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-09-05 17:50 ` [PATCH 0/10] towards clean leak-checker output Martin Ågren
2017-09-05 19:02   ` Jeff King
2017-09-05 20:41     ` Martin Ågren
2017-09-06 12:39       ` Jeff King
2017-09-06  1:42     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-09-06 12:28       ` [PATCH 0/2] simplifying !RUNTIME_PREFIX Jeff King
2017-09-06 12:30         ` [PATCH 1/2] system_path: move RUNTIME_PREFIX to a sub-function Jeff King
2017-09-06 13:23           ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-09-06 13:27             ` Jeff King
2017-09-06 12:32         ` [PATCH 2/2] git_extract_argv0_path: do nothing without RUNTIME_PREFIX Jeff King
2017-09-08  6:38 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] add UNLEAK annotation for reducing leak false positives Jeff King
2017-09-19 20:45   ` Jonathan Tan
2017-09-19 21:03     ` Jeff King
2017-09-19 21:34       ` [PATCH for jk/leak-checkers] git-compat-util: make UNLEAK less error-prone Jonathan Tan
2017-09-19 21:46         ` Jeff King
2017-09-19 22:10           ` [PATCH for jk/leak-checkers v2] " Jonathan Tan
2017-09-20  1:45       ` [PATCH v2 10/10] add UNLEAK annotation for reducing leak false positives Junio C Hamano
2017-09-20  2:28         ` Jeff King
2017-09-20  5:12           ` Junio C Hamano

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