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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>In the daily report table, performance differences are highlighted as a single percentage<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>difference. Due to the noise in many benchmarks and boards, often the true<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>performance characteristic cannot be summarized well into a single percentage<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>number, and a human has to look at all the samples/data points collected by the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>benchmarking runs to make a further assessment of whether a performance change<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>should be categorized as "noise" or "real".<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To make that assessment, you need to look at the chart of performance data<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>points over time. By adding mini-charts with spark lines to the daily report<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>page, that human analysis can be done without having to open many separate<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>pages - speeding up that analysis massively.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The attached patch implements adding such sparklines by adding SVG images<br>to the daily report page. For email reports this means that, this part probably<br>won't show up in most email clients. The only solution I can think of to also make<br>it work for email clients is to create images on the server - leading to more overloading of<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>the server & probably needing further dependencies on packages like matplotlib.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I think these sparklines are very useful – so already adding them to the webui is<br>worthwhile even if they don’t show up in the email report yet.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Luckily, all the needed data for the sparklines was already loaded from the database by the<br>daily report generator – so adding these spark lines shouldn’t add much server overhead.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A screenshot of a part of a daily report page with sparklines is below.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please review!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><img width=1523 height=629 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D0A85C.41CA50E0"></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>