On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 07:08:17PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thursday 02 December 2004 11:47 am, sean finney wrote: > > exponentially faster > > How, exactly, is this "exponentially faster"? Is it guaranteed to run in > logarithmic time relative to a normal download? > > Sorry to bug you, but I see this phrase being used a lot to mean "a whole > lot faster" and it's one of my pet peeves. :) right you are. bad computer science graduate. bad! it would perhaps be several orders of magnitude faster, but not exponentially in the mathemtical "big O" sense. sean --
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