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Posted May 2, 2007 16:31 UTC (Wed) by PO8 (subscriber, #41661) [Link]

Where by my estimates (having measured this stuff) "seriously speeds up" means "speeds up by two orders of magnitude". Ironically, I just gave a lecture to a machine learning class yesterday where I was whining about SA's uber-slow Perl ruleset that's been around forever: apparently they were listening. :-)

Posted May 3, 2007 7:23 UTC (Thu) by jimmybgood (guest, #26142) [Link]

I agree. I'm a fanatic about changelogs. I review the changelog on every update to every program on my computer. I found this announcement and changelog particularly well written, despite knowing little about SA.

Every change was followed by a coherent description long enough so I could get an idea of the nature of and need for the change, but not so long as to get bogged down in details I didn't understand. And if I wanted to investigate a change, adequate information was provided so that I could do some additional research.

Useful references were provided. Excitement was elicited. Gratuitous hype was absent.