> I've never used AverageDeviation. If I recall, I read about it on the twiki > and it's kind of random, could be useful but not really a standard stat, so > if it's super broken then I think it's ok to nuke it. > I like the Distribution stats, I've been using them a fair amount in my > tree, which is why I fixed up VectorDistribution to work correctly. But the > bin thing you describe great - one thing that is annoying about > Distributions is that you have to run it in order to figure out how to set > your bins, especially if you have no intuition about how things will be > distributed. Would it be possible to be able to have both? I know with > matplotlib, when I plot a histogram it's often sufficient to let it > auto-generate my bins, and even if i want more granularity, i just make more > bins...but sometimes I want to compare two things, and the auto-generated > bins between the two things are different. In this case, I appreciate the > ability to manually set bins to do a bin-to-bin comparison. That would be > useful in this case as well...particularly if these values were to be pulled > out to be plotted between runs, it would certainly make for an easier > comparison if the bins are the same. But then, that again requires prior > knowledge of rough bin distribution, which is what your auto-binning is > trying to get away from. So...I'd say both models are useful. It would be > great if both could be supported, just depending on how the stat is inited.
I'll keep both then. Nate _______________________________________________ m5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev
