Linear Search vs Binary Search (and Why It Actually Matters)

When you're working with data, one of the most common things your code does is search. Let's say you have a list of users, transactions, or even just numbers. How you search through that data can make the difference between something feeling instant… or painfully slow. Two of the most fundamental ways to search are linear search and binary search . They solve the same problem, but they behave very differently as your data grows. The Problem Imagine you have a list of 1,000,000 items and you need