What’s a real Big O mistake that actually hurt you in production?
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A real-world production performance issue caused by O(N²) complexity hidden inside a UI list renderer. Filtering an entire array on every cell redraw worked fine with a few hundred items in testing but caused scroll stuttering at 20,000 items in production. The fix was precomputing and caching filter results so rendering became
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