[Numpy-discussion] Now benchmarking multiple branches (master + maintenance/1.[67].x)

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

I am glad to announce that now you can see benchmark timing plots for
multiple branches, thus being able to spot regressions in maintenance
branches and compare enhancements in relation to previous releases.

e.g.
* improving upon 1.7.x but still lacking behind 1.6.x
  http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/numpy-vbench/vb_vb_core.html#numpy-identity-100
  http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/numpy-vbench/vb_vb_function_base.html#percentile
  ...

* what seems to be a regression caught/fixed in 1.7.x:
  http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/numpy-vbench/vb_vb_indexing.html#a-indexes-float32

* or not (yet) fixed in 1.7.x
  http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/numpy-vbench/vb_vb_io.html#strided-assign-complex64

summary table generation is not yet adjusted for this multi-branch
changes, so there might be misleading results there:
http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/numpy-vbench/index.html#benchmarks-performance-analysis

Cheers,
-- 
Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D.
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