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I usually interpret it as "scales geometrically and not arithmetically".
by heyjamesknight 3y ago
I usually interpret it as "scales geometrically and not arithmetically".
- lanstin 3y agoThat seems confusing. If I say my new service is orders of magnitude more efficient than previous services, I don’t mean any thing about scaling but current performance, and I wouldn’t say orders of magnitude if it was just twice as many calls/second/core, but more than ten, or really more than 30, halfway between ten and a hundred, logarithmically. Something that scales geometrically might well have some giant constant so it isn’t useful until a specific performance regime.
- jjtheblunt 3y agoi think of "orders of magnitude" to mean "powers of ten", but I asked since i'm not sure i'm reading what folks think they are saying.