Re: Python list micro-benchmarks

[Paul Eggert]

On 4/8/24 14:19, Bruno Haible wrote:
> My experience is that ChatGPT (3.5) provides good answers for things that
> have a lot of mentions on the web. Whereas for things that are rarely
> mentioned, it starts to hallucinate and often provides wrong answers.
> Therefore, for routine questions around Python or C++, it is perfectly
> suited.

For what it's worth, the business about the cost of x.append(y) (it's 
O(len(x)), and O(1) amortized) has been a standard part of the cost 
model lecture in my programming languages course for more than two 
decades, so I hope that UCLA graduates, at least, are still a step ahead 
of ChatGPT.