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- From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
- Subject: Re: finding 1st one in integer
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.221701.13322@fwi.uva.nl>
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- References: <Brqu3F.1J4@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <LOWRY.92Jul21165844@rotor.watson.ibm.com> <BrsMBE.98t@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1992Jul22.152827.14267@cs.cornell.edu> <1992Jul22.120735@is.morgan.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 22:17:01 GMT
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- berlin@is.morgan.com (Alexander Berlin) writes:
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- >In article <1992Jul22.152827.14267@cs.cornell.edu>, ressler@cs.cornell.edu (Gene Ressler) writes:
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- >|> ....
- >|> benchmark code (chris torek?), this runs about 400% faster than the 37 element
- >|> ....
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- >Just a side note: it's impossible to have code that runs 400% faster. Twice
- >as fast means 50% faster. 100% faster means in NO TIME.
- >400% slower makes sense, 400% faster doesn't.
- >4 times faster means 75% faster.
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- I beg your pardon!? Can some thing be twice as fast? Three times?
- Four times faster? Five times faster? If someone says
- ``method X is n% y-er'', he really means 'X is (n/100+1) times y-er'.
- Or 400% faster translates to 5 times faster, which looks plausible
- enough.
-
- Casper
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