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Re:I'd like to review your README by johnchristopher on Saturday April 17, 2021 @07:38AM (#26843482)
Fast is not a KPI though. It can and is often labeled on anything, making the term useless even when fast is a criteria over ease of us.

Maybe something at the top along the lines of : what it does, how and then what are the implications.

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Re:I'd like to review your README by mikepurvis on Saturday April 17, 2021 @11:41AM (#26845063)
Claiming "fast" implies that performance is a project goal, possibly even tracked over time as a metric, and that there's probably a comparison deeper in the README or elsewhere. It probably also means that when it comes to tradeoffs (compile time, code size, binary size, ergonomics, maybe even strictness/correctness), runtime speed is the preferred option.
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Re:I'd like to review your README by jeddy3 on Sunday April 18, 2021 @03:43AM (#26850604)
"[description], aimed at speed" or something like that is better in that case, IMHO.
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