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[coldtea]

What's "dramatically more" is all about context, it's not just about the relative change regarless of what's changed.

Wouldn't you consider a 7.6x change in your salary "dramatically more"?

>It's not even an order of magnitude more!

That's irrelevant. Even in software profiling, making something run "merely" 2x as fast can result in HUGE profits and savings (e.g. the movie studio that gets its rendering done in 3 months instead of 6).

[JorgeGT → coldtea]

Commercial aviation industry aimed at an annual improvement in fleet efficiency of 1.5% from 2010 to 2020. The estimated cost was $1.3 trillion.

[mpweiher → coldtea]

At Apple, a few % of performance improvement were a huge deal. These things add up over time...