judge (was Re: this week in ~canonical-bazaar)

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 10/26/2011 3:57 AM, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:09:26AM +1100 I heard the voice of 
> Martin Pool, and lo! it spake thus:
>> 
>> Part of my idea here is that if we can get a bit of mechanized 
>> wisdom about how to validly compare two series of timing data,
>> that would be more reliable than people either just eyeballing
>> it, or making their own guess about what technique to use.
> 
> I've pointed up ministat a few times in the past.
> 
> e.g., 
> <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2007q2/026067.html> 
> <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2008q3/047347.html>
> 
> The visualization is nice for eyeballing, and the calculated 95% 
> confidence intervals are right there handy.

I certainly remember it. I also remember that when I tried to use it,
I wasn't able to get it to compile anywhere. I believe it used a
library that was only packaged on FreeBSD or something like that. It
has been a while, so I should probably check again.

John
=:->


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