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I've been confused by some of Evan's presentations about performance gains and other statistics. For example, the release notes say

> updates (up to 133% faster)

How can something be > 100% faster?

If you take 100% faster to mean 2x faster (takes 1/2 the orig time), 200% faster to mean 3x faster (takes 1/3 the orig time)...

Then 133% faster means 2.33x faster (takes 1 / 2.33 = 0.42 the orig time).

Thanks for clarifying :-)

By doing twice as much in the same time, I guess.