<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org" target="_blank">SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 7/30/13 2:48 PM, Bill Baxter wrote:<br>
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On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu<br>
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On 7/30/13 11:13 AM, Walter Bright wrote:<br>
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On 7/30/2013 2:59 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote:<br>
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I just want to point out that being so much people getting<br>
this wrong<br>
(and even fighting to convince other people that the wrong<br>
interpretation is right) might be an indication that the<br>
message you<br>
wanted to give in that blog is not extremely clear :)<br>
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It never occurred to me that anyone would have any difficulty<br>
understanding the notion of "speed". After all, we deal with it<br>
every<br>
day when driving.<br>
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Yeh sure. Like "I made the trip to grandmother's house in 0.25<br>
trips/hour!. That's 25% faster than last week when I only drove at 0.2<br>
trips/hour."<br>
I say that all the time. ;-)<br>
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--bb<br>
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One does say miles per hour or kilometers per hour, which is the same exact notion.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's more analogous to something like MIPS than inverse program run time.</div><div><br></div><div>--bb</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>