> Ok, someone else provided an example for me (the Win-$@%#!^#$-printer).
> If Richard could show that a page from Netscape prints in something like
> 2 minute 32 seconds on a Winprinter without his proposed change and
> prints in only 1 minute 59 seconds with his change, that would be the
> sort of proof I'm talking about.
You are still thinking in terms of throughput. The Win-printer will
always print at exactly the same speed, or FAIL to print correctly.
The comparison you could get would look more like:
5 out of 1000 pages are garbage with the old code
3 out of 1000 pages are garbage with the new code
Of course I invented those numbers, but I think they should help
you understand the problems. You can't make the printer go any
faster or slower, but you can increase or decrease the chance of
producing garbage output.
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