Re:Choosing a more optimal `String` type
by kibwen on Friday September 22, 2023 @08:32PM
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From 1983:
Although "optimum" is an absolute term, like "unique", it became common verbal practice to make it relative: "not quite optimum" or "less optimum" or "not very optimum". Mel called the maximum time-delay locations the "most pessimum".
Although "optimum" is an absolute term, like "unique", it became common verbal practice to make it relative: "not quite optimum" or "less optimum" or "not very optimum". Mel called the maximum time-delay locations the "most pessimum".
https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel-annotated/node1....