space-time trade-offs

A form of space-time trade-off — A case where an algorithm or program trades increased space usage with decreased time, in which space refers to the data storage consumed in performing a given task and time refers to the time consumed in performing a given task.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of space-time trade-off
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