Which Method of Determining the Efficiency of Algorithms Allows You

question 24

Multiple Choice

Which method of determining the efficiency of algorithms allows you to rate them independently of timings or instruction counts?

• A) elapsed time profiling
• B) byte-code assembly
• C) complexity analysis
• D) memory usage analysis

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