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What is Big-O notation? Please explain with some examples?

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What is Big-O notation? Please explain with some examples?
posted Jun 9, 2015 by Karthick.c

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The Big-O notation describes the performance of an algorithm in terms of number of elements in a data structure. Since Collection classes are actually data structures, we usually tend to use Big-O notation to chose the collection implementation to use based on time, memory and performance.

Example 1: ArrayList get(index i) is a constant-time operation and doesn’t depend on the number of elements in the list. So it’s performance in Big-O notation is O(1).
Example 2: A linear search on array or list performance is O(n) because we need to search through entire list of elements to find the element.

answer Aug 30, 2017 by Sandeep Jain
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