points by arjie 9 hours ago | 0 comments
It's not Big-O complexity notation. It means "a few millions". It's sort of how the word "sanction" can mean one thing or a different thing. The textual glyph sequence means a different thing based on context in English. Pretty normal.
I like to call it Big-O Magnitude Notation.
[–] alienbaby 6 hours ago
[–] arjie 6 hours ago
I treat it as more akin to the (slightly more-awkward) "single-digit millions" whereas "millions" could go over. It's just a SV-ism. I usually find it pretty easy to disambiguate and I confuse it as little as I do the same / in dy/dx vs. 1/2. Notational overload is pretty normal in human communication, I think.
"Our next iteration of this scheduler aims to scale to millions of GPUs"