[pypy-dev] benchmarking input

[holger krekel]

Hi Maciej, Armin, all,

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 02:46 -0600, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
> Personally I think the best reason behind using DB is that there
> is a ton of software that will help you read it in nice objective way.
> With text files you rather need to write parser/dumper, hence
> adding more work.

all fine.  As commonly discussed with Miquel i think it's best 
to offer scripts for injecting/retrieving data remotely and then i
don't care if it is stored in a DB, Keyvalue-store or text
files in a filesystem. 

best,
holger

> Cheers,
> fijal
> 
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> wrote:
> > Hi Holger,
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 04:38:43PM +0200, holger krekel wrote:
> >> why is a DB table format better for refactoring than a text file?
> >
> > I suppose it isn't intrinsically.  The point is that as far as I know
> > all our previous pypy benchmarks did not even produce a text file
> > containing the results only, in a way that can be nicely re-read by
> > program and refactored.  They just produce directly text or html files
> > with the results embedded in whatever presentation was deemed best at
> > the time.
> >
> > More than that I have no preference for a DB format versus an
> > easily-reparsable text file format.
> >
> >
> > A bientot,
> >
> > Armin.
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