On 7/25/2013 4:15 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
Walter Bright, el 25 de July a las 14:27 me escribiste:
On 7/25/2013 11:49 AM, Dmitry S wrote:
I am also confused by the numbers. What I see at the end of the article is
"21.56 seconds, and the latest development version does it in 12.19", which is
really a 43% improvement. (Which is really great too.)
21.56/12.19 is 1.77, i.e. a >75% improvement in speed.
This is certainly misleading, is very easy to be confused with a time
reduction of 75%, which one would expect to be 1/4 of the original time.
:)
I don't think it's misleading at all. Speed is distance/time. A change in speed
(which is the title) is the reciprocal of a change in time.
For example, a doubling of speed (100% increase) is a halving of time (50%
reduction).
