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It does visualise how big the difference is though
by chikere232 2y ago
It 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.