Sigh. I despair of "16x faster" and "20x faster" headlines that ignore the
raw numbers. *The worst numbers in there are far below the threshold of
user perception*. Unless these results are compounded by running in a loop,
they are meaningless. Not immeasurable, just meaningless.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-limits/

That piece is from 1993, but the human nervous system hasn't changed since
then.

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