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Comment by david-gpu

11 hours ago

However non-uniform your data access latencies are, algorithmic analysis treats all of them as O(1) as an axiom.

If you don't like that convention, you are free to use your own, but it is going to confuse people who use the standard convention. And the convention makes a lot of sense when you stop and think about the problem that people are trying to solve.

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