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- From: bnell@siemens.com. (Bill Nell)
- Newsgroups: comp.programming
- Subject: Re: Does "400% faster" make sense? (Was: Re: finding 1st one in integer)
- Message-ID: <bnell.711924852@ferrari>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 20:54:12 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.120735@is.morgan.com> <LOWRY.92Jul22154231@rotor.watson.ibm.com> <1992Jul22.172337@is.morgan.com> <PINKAS.92Jul23100825@caraway.intel.com>
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- pinkas@caraway.intel.com (Israel Pinkas) writes:
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- >berlin@is.morgan.com (Alexander Berlin) writes:
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- > If some job takes me 100 seconds and you can do it in 25 seconds:
- > I am 300% slower then you are. (100-25)/25*100
- > You are 75% faster than I am(not 300) (100-25)/100*100
- > Your performance is 400% of mine. (1/25)/(1/100)*100
- > My performance is 25% of yours. (1/100)/(1/25)*100
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- >Guess again Alexander. When calculating delta%, divide by the original
- >number. Thus:
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- >If some job takes me 100 seconds and you can do it in 25 seconds:
- > I am 75% slower then you are. (25-100)/100*100% = -75%
- > You are 300% faster than I am. (100-25)/25*100% = 300%
- > Your performance is 400% of mine. (1/25)/(1/100)*100% = 400%
- > My performance is 25% of yours. (1/100)/(1/25)*100% = 25%
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- >To compare:
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- >If I can dig a hole in 60 seconds, and you can dig the hole in 30 seconds,
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- >you are twice as fast as me: 60/30
- >I am half as slow as you: 30/60
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- >For more info, see a good high school algebra book.
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- It all depends on your defenition of faster and performance. In a way you
- are both correct. I've seen and used the first method for measuring
- relative performance in a textbook by Hennesy & Patterson on computer
- architecture go check it out if you don't believe me.
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- Bill
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