[darcs-devel] [issue1690] Create benchmark for darcs 2.4 announcement

[Eric Kow]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 01:40:12 -0500, Max Battcher wrote:
> Tested it on my own system's page:
> 
> http://wiki.darcs.net/Benchmarks/Quasar
...
> Let me know what y'all think of my quick hack for the visualization
> department,

Those look great!  The first thing I'd say is that the graphical
columns should match the order of the text tables.

See http://irclog.perlgeek.de/darcs/2010-02-27#i_2044699
for feedback, some of it seems to be mentioned below.

> I ended up with a trio of Python scripts to semi-automate the task.
> They are ugly, quick hacks, but they seem to work as a start. One
> scrapes the wiki tables into CSV files, and the other two create
> graph URLs from CSV files.
> 
> This is my stopping point for the night, but additional pages should
> be relatively quick... A few obvious TODO items:
> 
> * Add units labels to y-axis
> * Better unit handling all around (currently hardcoded and "dumb")
> * Consider a way to standardize version color/order across graph tool runs
> * Graphs for standard deviation? A box plot-like error marker on the
> time graphs?
> * Remove duplications between graph scripts
> * Comment, document, further automate, etc...

And now that you've shown the way (using Google Chart is great because
this means people don't have to worry about uploading images to the
wiki, just paste and bang!), I'll point out that there is a Haskell
package for GoogleChart that we should plug in darcs-benchmark:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/GoogleChart

-- 
Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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