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OP here. Feedback is always welcome, I did mean exponentially in the colloquial sense. I do see how it is confusing here, will change it.

• DamonHD 1y ago
  Thank you. (I don't think that anyone should use "exponentially" that way: it is an art term with a specific and particular meaning, so find another word if you mean something else! Like misusing specific legal or sporting terms...)
  • ctxc 1y ago
    Art term?
    • wizzwizz4 1y ago
      https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/term_of_art https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/term_of_art
      • ctxc 1y ago
        Ah, thanks. I could only think of art as in literal, artistic art.
        • kccqzy 1y ago
          If you have that tendency, you just need to think of TAOCP, this industry's best distillation of intellectual achievement, with the word "art" in its name.
  • taftster 1y ago
    Which term is appropriate here? What would you suggest? (honest question)
    • DamonHD 1y ago
      "hugely" or "a lot" or "to O(XXX)" whatever the new XXX complexity is.
      • taftster 1y ago
        "to O(xxx)" is a good idea, in terms of keeping it mathematical and accurate. I like that best. "hugely" makes me giggle, because I really hear "bigly" when I see/hear it.
• serial_dev 1y ago
  You can’t use exponentially in the colloquial sense in a post about software performance. If my barista says that his new coffee is exponentially better, it’s ok to use it colloquially. If my git hosting provider writes about an impactful performance improvement, it’s not.
• DamonHD 1y ago
  I'm disappointed that the page has not been fixed...