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How can it be 100% faster at anything? This is mathematically impossible. If a task used to take 100 seconds, 1 second (an unlikely improvement!) is just 99% fa
by eliben 14y ago
How can it be 100% faster at anything? This is mathematically impossible. If a task used to take 100 seconds, 1 second (an unlikely improvement!) is just 99% faster.
- zokier 14y agoThroughput can be 100% faster. Eg if it could previously decode docx at 100kb/s and now can do it 200kb/s then it would be 100% faster. Or wouldn't you say that a car that goes 100 mph is 100% faster than a car that goes 50 mph?
- eli 14y agoSurely, a 1 second improvement would mean it is 1% faster. (Put another way, no change would mean a 0% change in speed, right?)
- analyst74 14y agoMaking a 100 sec task taking 1 sec is a 9900% improvement, because in the same amount of time, you can do that task 99 more times.