: Re: "Performance" to indicate speed ambigous? I am writing about algorithms in a paper and I wonder how to best express increasing the speed of an algorithm. Is it clear when I write "The performance

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You are correct, "performance" is ambiguous. You could simply say:

the algorithm is faster (than the old one)

but you probably want to indicate by how much its speed has increased:

the new algorithm is n% faster than the reference version.

If you have more than one number (n% for problems of class X, m% for problems of class Y), you should present the results in a table. Sentences stuffed with numbers are difficult to read and can lead to misinterpretation.

The performance has been increased both qualitatively and quantitatively

You could rephrase this as:

The algoritm is faster and produces better-quality output.

That still leaves unsaid what the quality of the output constitutes. How do you decide if the quality is good or bad? Make this explicit:

The algoritm produces output that conforms to our mathematical model with an error of less than .00001%

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