What's the time complexity of this append method? [closed]

I made a method that appends a sequence to another sequence.

So: (append [1,2,3] [4,5,6]) = [1,2,3,4,5,6]

CODE In C#

IEnumerable<int> Append(IEnumerable<int> xs,IEnumerable<int> ys)
{
using(var iteratorX = xs.GetEnumerator())
using(var iteratorY = ys.GetEnumerator())
{
bool isTrueForX = false;
bool isTrueForY = false;
while((isTrueForX = iteratorX.MoveNext()) || (isTrueForY = iteratorY.MoveNext()))
{
if(isTrueForX) yield return iteratorX.Current;
else if(isTrueForY) yield return iteratorY.Current;
}
}
}


I would like to know what is the time-complexity of this algorithm.

• Why do you think it is $O(\max(|xs|,|ys|))$? What makes you unsure? Please show your work in the question, and explain where you got stuck; that makes it more likely we can help you usefully. – D.W. Mar 14 '14 at 15:48
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If $T_1(l)$ denotes the time for a single call to the iterator of list $l$, $T_a(l)$ denotes the combined time for all calls needed to iterate ove $l$, and the combined list is called $x.y$, we find $$T_1(x.y) = {\cal O}(\max\{T_1(x),T_1(y)\})$$ and $$T_a(x.y) = T_a(x)+T_a(y).$$
The first one will typically be ${\cal O}(1)$ and the second one ${\cal O}(|x.y|)$.