Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 7/30/13 2:48 PM, Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org <mailto:SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>>
> wrote:
>
>     On 7/30/13 11:13 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>         On 7/30/2013 2:59 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>
>             I just want to point out that being so much people getting
>             this wrong
>             (and even fighting to convince other people that the wrong
>             interpretation is right) might be an indication that the
>             message you
>             wanted to give in that blog is not extremely clear :)
>
>
>         It never occurred to me that anyone would have any difficulty
>         understanding the notion of "speed". After all, we deal with it
>         every
>         day when driving.
>
>
> Yeh sure.  Like "I made the trip to grandmother's house in 0.25
> trips/hour!.  That's 25% faster than last week when I only drove at 0.2
> trips/hour."
> I say that all the time.  ;-)
>
> --bb

One does say miles per hour or kilometers per hour, which is the same 
exact notion.

Andrei