if a function's statements execution increases with input but with a limit, would it be considered O(n) or O(1)?
for example:
void func(int n)
{
if (n > 1000)
{
for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i )
{
//do thing
}
}
else
{
for (int i = 0; i < n; i )
{
//do same thing
}
}
}
is this function O(n) or O(1)?
CodePudding user response:
It is O(1), not O(n).
Big-O analysis is asymptotic: it intentionally ignores an arbitrarily large initial section of the performance function, in order to accurately describe the large-scale behavior.