Marketing of D - article topic ideas?

[retard]

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:13:43 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

> "retard" <re at tard.com.invalid> wrote in message
> news:hun6ok$13s5$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:14:51 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>>> 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).
>>
>> This probably means that D 2 won't be very efficient on multicore until
>> the authors learn some basic parallel programming skills. Now where did
>> you get your PhD - I'm collecting a list of toy universities people
>> should avoid.
> 
> You used to have meaningful things to say. Now you're just trolling.

Max of n unordered elements can be solved in O(log log n) time assuming 
you have enough cores and constant time memory access. Happy now?