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> a fun visualization of each language’s performance The effect is similar to dragging a string past a cat: complete distraction — unable to avoid focusing on
by igouy 2y ago
> a fun visualization of each language’s performance
The effect is similar to dragging a string past a cat: complete distraction — unable to avoid focusing on the movement — unable to extract any information from the movement.
To understand the measurements, cover the "fun visualization" and read the numbers in the single column data table.
(Unfortunately we aren't able to scan down the column of numbers, because the language implementation name is shown first.)
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- chikere232 2y agoIt does visualise how big the difference is though
- igouy 2y agoCover up the single column of lang/secs and then try to read how big the difference is between java and php from the moving circles. You would have no problem doing that with a [typo histogram should say bar chart].
- MeetingsBrowser 2y agoCover the labels on the histogram and try to read how big the difference is between java and php....
- igouy 2y agoWe can read the relative difference from the length of the bars because the bars are stable.
- MeetingsBrowser 2y agoI can see the relative difference in speed between the two balls.
- igouy 2y ago"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool." :-)
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- chikere232 2y agoPHP looks much slower
- igouy 2y agoThe question is: How much slower? We could try to count how many times the java circle crosses left-to-right and right-to-left, in the time it takes for the PHP circle to cross left-to-right once. That's error prone but should be approximately correct after a couple of attempts. That's work we're forced to do because the "fun visualization" is uninformative.
- chikere232 2y agoThat might be your question, but then you can look at the numbers. No chart will be as exact.
- igouy 2y agoIf only we could look at the numbers without the uninformative distraction.
- chikere232 2y agoI found the animation informative
- igouy 2y ago> I found the animation informative Java was so fast it glowed orange! I wonder if the distraction of the animation actually makes people slower at reading the information that is in the text column. The animation serves its purpose -- it grabs attention.
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