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Subject: Re: simple proof of > 2.0

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 14:48:19 09/04/02

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On September 04, 2002 at 15:01:55, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 04, 2002 at 14:49:53, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On September 04, 2002 at 14:24:47, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>With YOUR method it is very easily possible to get always
>>> 2.0.
>>
>>The easy case is a program that gets a speedup of about 1.9
>>and profits just a bit more than 5% from a filled hashtable.
>>
>>That's by definition > 2.0 then.
>
>No, that is by hand-waving > 2.0.  Because the serial search would
>_also_ profit by the filled hash table and run faster.
>
>Try again...

The problem is that one position influences the other. They are
not independent measurements, but your article is based on the fact
they are.

--
GCP



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