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You've never seen anyone say "x% faster" where x is a number larger than 100? I find that hard to believe.



Not for a programming language because it's extremely rare for the computation rate to increase, rather than the work being done to compute something decrease.

If you've rewritten something to better use cachelines, removed saturating memory bandwidth, etc then sure you've increased The computation rate. But that's rarely how these language specific optimizations occur.




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