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SubjectRe: [PATCH] perf, tools: Support spark lines in perf stat v2
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Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> writes:
>
> Hmm, my first looking at the spark thingies interpreted them as a
> histogram. But they're not really.

It's a histogram of variance.

> Would it be possible to make it a histogram of -2sigma,2sigma around the
> avg value? That way you can plot all data and get a good idea of the
> distribution. I'd suggest using 9 buckets for it.

I doubt that would work well with only ~8 values.
This would need multiple lines or a real plotter,
otherwise you would have all kinds of odd corner cases.

Sparklines are much better for limited space.

-Andi

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ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only


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