On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/30/13 2:48 PM, Bill Baxter wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu >> <[email protected] >> <mailto:SeeWebsiteForEmail@**erdani.org<[email protected]> >> >> >> wrote: >> >> On 7/30/13 11:13 AM, Walter Bright wrote: >> >> On 7/30/2013 2:59 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: >> >> I just want to point out that being so much people getting >> this wrong >> (and even fighting to convince other people that the wrong >> interpretation is right) might be an indication that the >> message you >> wanted to give in that blog is not extremely clear :) >> >> >> It never occurred to me that anyone would have any difficulty >> understanding the notion of "speed". After all, we deal with it >> every >> day when driving. >> >> >> Yeh sure. Like "I made the trip to grandmother's house in 0.25 >> trips/hour!. That's 25% faster than last week when I only drove at 0.2 >> trips/hour." >> I say that all the time. ;-) >> >> --bb >> > > One does say miles per hour or kilometers per hour, which is the same > exact notion. > > That's more analogous to something like MIPS than inverse program run time. --bb
