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It's fastest of all author's implementations, which is stated in first paragraph.

by elmigranto 10y ago

Ono-Sendai 10y ago
Yes but the title make a claim that it's the fastest.
- elmigranto 10y ago
  And it is, though, not among a set of hashtable implementations you assumed. It is quite similar with how you wrote "fastest" instead "fastest among all existing publicly available implementations". Nothing wrong with that, since it is obvious from context, very much the same way it is obvious from article what author means.
  - Ono-Sendai 10y ago
    it's a bullshit clickbait title.
    - saalweachter 10y ago
      As the author explains right off the bat, it's a logical clickbait title. He wrote three blog posts: "I wrote a fast hashtable", "I wrote a faster hashtable", "I wrote the fastest hashtable". I mean, I'd still call it clickbait, but it's hardly bullshit clickbait.
      - cat199 10y ago
        there is a difference?
  - attractivechaos 10y ago
    In the text, it is fine to say "fastest" because there is a context, but in the title, "fastest" means above everything else in the world because the context has not been established yet to readers. If you read news with "fastest" in the title (e.g. fastest CPU or fastest compiler), it really means the fastest in the world at the time of publication. The author could just say "very fast" or "faster than common hash table libraries" in the title. The current title, IMHO, undermines the quality of the post (which is actually good).
    - cat199 10y ago
      But I'm the context! Geez.
      - attractivechaos 10y ago
        The title of this post has been changed to "my fastest" after I wrote my previous comment. The original post is still "the fastest". There was no context.
dsp1234 10y ago
The first paragraph states very clearly: "And by that I mean that I have the fastest lookups of any hashtable I could find, while my inserts and erases are also really fast. (but not the fastest)" Yes, it is the fastest that author wrote. However, that's not the sole claim. But also that it has the fastest lookups of any hashtable the author could find. The complaint being that he did not do a very thorough job of finding alternatives, and thus the title of "I wrote the fastest hashtable" is not reasonable. aka "I'm the smartest/fastest/strongest person of the people I could find"

It's fastest of all author's implementations, which is stated in first paragraph.

Ono-Sendai 10y ago

Yes but the title make a claim that it's the fastest.

elmigranto 10y ago
And it is, though, not among a set of hashtable implementations you assumed. It is quite similar with how you wrote "fastest" instead "fastest among all existing publicly available implementations". Nothing wrong with that, since it is obvious from context, very much the same way it is obvious from article what author means.
- Ono-Sendai 10y ago
  it's a bullshit clickbait title.
  - saalweachter 10y ago
    As the author explains right off the bat, it's a logical clickbait title. He wrote three blog posts: "I wrote a fast hashtable", "I wrote a faster hashtable", "I wrote the fastest hashtable". I mean, I'd still call it clickbait, but it's hardly bullshit clickbait.
    - cat199 10y ago
      there is a difference?
- attractivechaos 10y ago
  In the text, it is fine to say "fastest" because there is a context, but in the title, "fastest" means above everything else in the world because the context has not been established yet to readers. If you read news with "fastest" in the title (e.g. fastest CPU or fastest compiler), it really means the fastest in the world at the time of publication. The author could just say "very fast" or "faster than common hash table libraries" in the title. The current title, IMHO, undermines the quality of the post (which is actually good).
  - cat199 10y ago
    But I'm the context! Geez.
    - attractivechaos 10y ago
      The title of this post has been changed to "my fastest" after I wrote my previous comment. The original post is still "the fastest". There was no context.

dsp1234 10y ago

The first paragraph states very clearly: "And by that I mean that I have the fastest lookups of any hashtable I could find, while my inserts and erases are also really fast. (but not the fastest)" Yes, it is the fastest that author wrote. However, that's not the sole claim. But also that it has the fastest lookups of any hashtable the author could find. The complaint being that he did not do a very thorough job of finding alternatives, and thus the title of "I wrote the fastest hashtable" is not reasonable. aka "I'm the smartest/fastest/strongest person of the people I could find"