"While cost remains a major factor in decisions about where to off-source, the quality of the labor pool is gaining importance, and this includes English language skills."

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Once I have it sorted I can search it in log n time, but that's still isn't as good as just doing n. And this led to this idea of amortization, which is I need to not only factor in the cost, but how am I going to use it?

一旦对其完成排序,就可以在log，n的时间内对其完成搜索,但是这样做仍然不如n的复杂度,这样做引出了耗时分摊的想法,这时不仅需要考虑耗时的因素？

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