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		yunohn 20 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tosijs-schema is a super lightweight schema-first ... > It checks a fixed sample of items (roughly 1%) regardless of size > This provides O(1) performance Wouldn’t 1% of N still imply O(N) performance?

podperson 20 days ago [–]

N is increasing. O(1) means constant (actually capped). We never check more than 100 items.

SkiFire13 20 days ago | [–]

Then it's not 1%, because if you have 100k items and you check at most 100 you have checked at most 0.1% of items.

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