Re: Re: Finding all substrings

Um, just reading the Benchmark output man:

            Rate original      new
original  7710/s       --     -80%
new      38610/s     401%       --
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If that doesn't mean 400% faster then I guess I need more education.

-sam

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Re: (3) Finding all substrings (Russ: more != less) by Russ (Deacon) on Apr 24, 2002 at 19:49 UTC
Benchmark is telling you: new is 80% faster than original original is 401% slower than new Don't confuse "this much more" with "this much less." :-) Russ Brainbench 'Most Valuable Professional' for Perl	[reply]
(MeowChow - you're all confused) Re5: Finding all substrings by MeowChow (Vicar) on Apr 25, 2002 at 00:20 UTC
The issue here has nothing to do with "less" and "more", and everything to do with units of measure. When samtregar says his routine is 400% faster, he is obviously implying a unit of measure based on rate, ie. number of executions per second. Dominus's quip assumed an inverse unit of measure based on seconds per execution. Personally, I think samtregar's assumption about units was the better one. Most people are accustomed to thinking about things in terms of rate, ie. if I say I made my script run 4x faster, there's really no confusion. If I say I made it run 75% faster, things get muddled. But once it goes over 100%, there's no question as to what is meant. MeowChow s aamecha.s a..a\u$&owag.print	[reply]