Hi, just a quick note to Laura and the rest to let you know that I am working on the issues you raised, and expect to have everything nailed down this weekend, just in time for PyCon.
Miquel 2011/2/28 Laura Creighton <[email protected]>: > Also, can you change every usage of the word 'less' on the axis of the > graphs to 'smaller'. As far as I can tell, every time it is an > incorrect and ungramatically usage of English. Sometimes the legend > is 'seconds - less is better'. But seconds are inherantly countable, > so it is incorrect English to say 'there are less seconds' -- rather > that there are *fewer* seconds. Or you could change that legend to > read 'time in seconds' -- because time is considered uncountable, so > you have more or less time, not more or fewer time. Smaller would also > work here. > > Ratios, however, such as on http://speed.pypy.org/comparison/ > cannot be 'more or less' or 'more or fewer'. They have to be greater > (or larger) or smaller. Thus we need 'smaller' here. > > Laura > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
