Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

[Leandro Lucarella]

SomeDude, el 27 de July a las 20:27 me escribiste:
> 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.

Again, I never said is incorrect, I said is easily to read it
incorrectly, which ends up sending a wrong message.

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