[pypy-dev] benchmarking input

[holger krekel]

Hi Armin, 

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 16:30 +0200, Armin Rigo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 05:23:25PM +0200, Anders Hammarquist wrote:
> > Since everyone but me seemed to want to take the discussion on IRC instead,
> > I propose we meet up on #pypy-sync on monday at 14:00 
> 
> Outcome of this meeting: as a first step, we will do a system that runs
> nightly.  It does a build of a pypy-c-jit, runs richards (only) and
> stores the result in a database format.  Then it extracts the results
> from the database and write them as a static text or html file, for a
> web server.
> 
> We will then see where to go from there.  I think it's important to
> store the results in a DB instead of just as a static text or html file,
> for future refactorings; this issue blocked us when developing the
> tuatara benchmarks.

why is a DB table format better for refactoring than a text file? 

holger