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 <lac@openend.se>:

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

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 <lac@openend.se>:

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