Decreasing Gitlab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes

Re:Decreasing Gitlab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 m... by DamonHD on Friday June 06, 2025 @01:26PM (#44203099)

Thank you.

(I don't think that anyone should use "exponentially" that way: it is an art term with a specific and particular meaning, so find another word if you mean something else! Like misusing specific legal or sporting terms...)

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Re:Decreasing Gitlab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 m... by ctxc on Friday June 06, 2025 @01:41PM (#44203251)

Art term?

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Re:Decreasing Gitlab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 m... by wizzwizz4 on Friday June 06, 2025 @01:55PM (#44203362)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/term_of_art

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Re:Decreasing Gitlab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 m... by ctxc on Friday June 06, 2025 @02:03PM (#44203443)

Ah, thanks. I could only think of art as in literal, artistic art.

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Re:Decreasing Gitlab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 m... by kccqzy on Friday June 06, 2025 @02:29PM (#44203649)

If you have that tendency, you just need to think of TAOCP, this industry's best distillation of intellectual achievement, with the word "art" in its name.

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Re:Decreasing Gitlab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 m... by taftster on Friday June 06, 2025 @04:42PM (#44204763)

Which term is appropriate here? What would you suggest? (honest question)

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Re:Decreasing Gitlab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 m... by DamonHD on Saturday June 07, 2025 @03:18AM (#44208026)

"hugely" or "a lot" or "to O(XXX)" whatever the new XXX complexity is.

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Re:Decreasing Gitlab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 m... by taftster on Monday June 09, 2025 @01:24PM (#44226768)

"to O(xxx)" is a good idea, in terms of keeping it mathematical and accurate. I like that best. "hugely" makes me giggle, because I really hear "bigly" when I see/hear it.

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