Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

[SomeDude]

On Friday, 26 July 2013 at 00:08:21 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Walter Bright, el 25 de July a las 14:27 me escribiste:
>> On 7/25/2013 11:49 AM, Dmitry S wrote:
>> >I am also confused by the numbers. What I see at the end of 
>> >the article is
>> >"21.56 seconds, and the latest development version does it in 
>> >12.19", which is
>> >really a 43% improvement. (Which is really great too.)
>> 
>> 21.56/12.19 is 1.77, i.e. a >75% improvement in speed.
>
> This is certainly misleading, is very easy to be confused with 
> a time
> reduction of 75%, which one would expect to be 1/4 of the 
> original time.
> :)

No, a division by 4 of the total time would be a 300% improvement 
in speed. The article's title looks correct to me.