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Subject: Re: Why bother with NPS??

Author: martin fierz

Date: 01:02:50 09/10/03

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>So 100% faster -> +65 elo points
>    50% faster -> +33 elo points (half of 65)
>    25% faster -> +16 elo points
>...and so on.

not true! if you take a program and make it 50% faster twice or take the same
program and make it 100% faster in one step, you get the same 65 elo increase
with your statement. but 50% faster twice is in fact a 2.25-fold increase in
speed, which is obviously better than a 2-fold increase...

cheers
  martin



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