Marketing of D - article topic ideas?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 06/08/2010 04:05 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 06/08/2010 01:27 PM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
>>> Please define "reasonable performance"...
>>
>> Within 15% of hand-optimized code specialized for the types at hand.
>
> I would have said O(n) or O(log n), as opposed to, say, O(n*n).
>
> General rules for performance improvements:
>
> 1. nobody notices a 10% improvement
>
> 2. users will start noticing speedups when they exceed 2x
>
> 3. a 10x speedup is a game changer

max of n elements is O(n).

Andrei