Lower Settings reduce the number of connections at the expense of performance.

较低的设置会减少连接数，但是以性能作为代价。

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This distinction between the test scenarios helped manage risk, by allowing additional resource to be applied when unexpected problems occurred, at the expense of test scenarios of lower priority.

通过允许当未预期的问题出现时应用附加的资源，以较低优先级的测试场景为代价，测试场景之间的差别帮助管理风险。

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Furthermore, the evidence is overwhelming that higher expense funds do not, on average, perform better than lower expense funds.

此外，有证据表明，一般来说更多的基金费用并不能比少量基金费用的绩效更好。

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There are set-up costs that make per-unit expense lower for large production runs than for short runs.

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In all cases the actual expense is lower. (By the way that is total income tax expense all in federal, state and foreign).

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The year-over-year improvement was led by higher sales, lower associate incentive expense and a lower effective tax rate.

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