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0 pointsnecovek3y ago0 comments

But it's not only that. Nothing can be improved to be 119% faster either. Maybe the new result makes the old one 119% slower.

It's about language use and what of are those per-cents (per-hundredths).

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gilbetron3y ago

If I travel 25 miles in 1 hour, my speed was 25mph. If I go 100% faster, I'm going 50mph and get there in 30 minutes. If I go 200% faster, I'm going 75mph and get there in 20 minutes.

However, the original statement of "We have reduced the time for the computation by ~119%!" is still wrong-seeming, I agree. It should be "We have increased the speed for the computation by 119%" or "We have reduced the time for the computation by <WHATEVER>" :)

necovekOP3y ago

Language is, as you nicely point out, very tricky.

Yeah, when talking of speed, you can clearly go more than 100% faster.

But when talking of something taking a certain amount of time, like done in most benchmarks, it can't be made more than 100% faster.

gilbetron3y ago

You can because when you say 100% faster, it is referring to speed, and so you convert to speed than calculate time from that. Language matters :)

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0 pointsnecovek3y ago0 comments

But it's not only that. Nothing can be improved to be 119% faster either. Maybe the new result makes the old one 119% slower.

It's about language use and what of are those per-cents (per-hundredths).

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gilbetron3y ago

If I travel 25 miles in 1 hour, my speed was 25mph. If I go 100% faster, I'm going 50mph and get there in 30 minutes. If I go 200% faster, I'm going 75mph and get there in 20 minutes.

necovekOP3y ago

Language is, as you nicely point out, very tricky.

Yeah, when talking of speed, you can clearly go more than 100% faster.

But when talking of something taking a certain amount of time, like done in most benchmarks, it can't be made more than 100% faster.

gilbetron3y ago

You can because when you say 100% faster, it is referring to speed, and so you convert to speed than calculate time from that. Language matters :)

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