[MERGE] List of the planned changes for the roadmap

Andrew Bennetts andrew at canonical.com
Wed Jun 6 08:06:08 BST 2007


Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> Robert Collins wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 02:20 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> >> I find "3x faster" clearer than "66% faster".
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> > I dont :). To me 3x a 3 second operation is clearly 9 seconds.
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> That would be 3x slower.
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> To me, 66% faster means that if we could previously process 100 files in
> a second, we can now process 166 files in a second.

My brain works exactly the same was as Aaron's here.

And opposite to Robert, I have to stop and think when I see "N% faster/slower"
rather than "Nx faster/slower" which is immediately comprensible.

-Andrew.




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