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by jayd16 268 days ago
At 100x, it seems like you could run both optimal strategies every time, let them race, and still come out way ahead.
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You double + the IO and potentially CPU time which is why this isn't done. It's also not always 100x, that just happens often enough. Sometimes it's only 2x or 1.5x. It's impossible to know which situation you are in and the hard thing is the outliers will be slow either way.