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You improved the speed of something. It took 430ms before and now just 160ms. But how do you quantify that? https://how-much-faster.glitch.me/ https://how-much-
by paulirish 4y ago
You improved the speed of something. It took 430ms before and now just 160ms. But how do you quantify that? https://how-much-faster.glitch.me/ https://how-much-faster.glitch.me/ gives you a few options for how to word things.
- Grustaf 4y agoSounds like it's already quantified? 160 ms vs 430 ms.
- eps 4y agoQuantifying the change, relative to the base or the new value.
- didgetmaster 4y agoYou need to find a way to weight it. Improving, by a huge percentage, something that is traditionally very slow can sometimes be trivial. Improving, by even a few percentage points, something that many different systems have spent decades trying to make as fast as possible can be much more significant. For example, finding files in a big file system using standard file calls takes forever. Making this hundreds or even thousands of times faster is certainly possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWIo6sia_hw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWIo6sia_hw On the other hand, making general database queries run faster than the latest version of Postgres with proper indexes takes a bit of novel thinking. Even a 20% or 30% improvement should be considered a breakthrough, let alone 2x or better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVICKCkWMZE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVICKCkWMZE