I think we need something that's comprehensible as quickly as possible. I'm no
graphic designer, but how about this:
https://imgrush.com/0oPGJ8VHluFy.png
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I used the word 'delay' as it is more familiar than latency. The number is
illustrated by a picture of a physical queue; hopefully everyone can identify
it instantly, and knows that a longer one is worse. The eye supposed to be
drawn to the figure at the back of the queue to emphasise this.
I just made this manually in inkscape, but it should not be too hard to
automate the generation of a graphic like this.
Alex
On Friday, March 20, 2015 9:08 PM, Bill Ver Steeg (versteb)
<[email protected]> wrote:
I was kidding about "sucks-less", and forgot the smiley in my initial note.
We do need a metric with an end-user-friendly name, though. Most people
understand "lag", and understand that lower numbers are better. You could
probably explain "lag-while-loaded" to most users (particularly people who
care, like gamers) in a manner that got the point across.
Bvs
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Morton [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 4:26 PM
To: Bill Ver Steeg (versteb)
Cc: Rémi Cardona; bloat; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Bloat] marketing #102 - giving netperf-wrapper a better name?
> On 20 Mar, 2015, at 22:08, Bill Ver Steeg (versteb) <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> We should call the metric "sucks-less". As in "Box A sucks less than Box B",
> or "Box C scored a 17 on the sucks less test".
I suspect real marketing drones would get nervous at a negative-sounding name.
My idea - which I’ve floated in the past, more than once - is that the metric
should be “responsiveness”, measured in Hertz. The baseline standard would be
10Hz, corresponding to a dumb 100ms buffer. Get down into the single-digit
millisecond range, as fq_codel does, and the Responsiveness goes up above
100Hz, approaching 1000Hz.
Crucially, that’s a positive sort of term, as well as trending towards bigger
numbers with actual improvements in performance, and is thus more potentially
marketable.
- Jonathan Morton
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