But machine-readable descriptions can sometimes help us reduce the amount of work that we, as programmers, testers and administrators, need to do.

但机器可读的描述有时能降低我们作为程序员、测试员和管理员需要做的工作量。

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He and a couple of other people who work on Factor have done just an incredible amount of work in optimizing the compiler and the virtual machine for it.

他和别的很多工作在Facotor的人在它的优化编译器和虚拟机上面做了不可思议的大量工作。

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However, the amount of work that can be done using a RESTful machine-readable description, if one exists today, is limited. This is due to the following.

然而，使用RESTful的机器可读描述可做的工作量，即使存在的话，其作用也有限。

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Today, that work will either be done by machine or by half the amount of people, making twice as much as they used to.

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