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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Benchmark Results for PHP Master 2015-07-30
From: christopher.jones@oracle.com (Christopher Jones)



On 30/07/2015 11:12 pm, Niklas Keller wrote:
> 2015-07-30 14:42 GMT+02:00 Andone, Bogdan <bogdan.andone@intel.com>:
>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Niklas Keller [mailto:me@kelunik.com]
>>> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 1:47 PM
>>> To: Pierre Joye
>>> Cc: lp_benchmark_robot; PHP internals; lp@lists.01.org
>>> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Benchmark Results for PHP Master 2015-07-30
>>>
>>> 2015-07-30 11:57 GMT+02:00 Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Does someone has a contact there?
>>>>
>>>> It would be nicer to have these results combined with what we pushed
>>>> on qa.php.net as well.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Pierre
>>>
>>>
>>> Thought about that as well, results per mail aren't that useful,
>>> especially as they're badly formatted for me in GMail (no fixed font).
>>> A graph visualizing those numbers would be nice.
>>>
>>> Regards, Niklas
>>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> We are glad that our small ticking spam start to be observed :) !
>>
>> We would like to offer valuable information to the community related to
>> performance trends of the PHP project on Intel platforms based on daily
>> builds
>> and we are open for suggestions for making these results relevant.
>>
>> We chose to share our numbers as plain text mails for easily seeing the
>> summary
>> snapshots on discussion lists without the need of other clicks.
>> Everybody agrees that plain text is ugly and, yes, you need to have fixed
>> font in
>> place for having the table formatted correctly. Let’s discuss a better way
>> of doing;
>> integration with qa.php.net is possible if we find the right interface
>> for sharing
>> data in an automated way.
>>
>> Normally <lp@lists.01.org> should be the official entry for feedbacks and
>> requests but,
>> unfortunately, it is not yet operational, so I will be your direct contact
>> as I am part
>> of the team which deploys this project.
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Bogdan
>>
>>
> Hi Bogdan,
>
> I think absolute numbers (instead of a %-change) would be better suited for
> visualizing performance over time.
>
> Regards, Niklas
>

I agree on using absolute numbers.  With percentages it is not
immediately obvious whether the change was good or bad.

Including the build options would be good.

Chris

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