This message is mostly to Lisa since she's done some stats cleanup recently, but anyone who has used statistics other than Scalar and Vector should feel free to comment.
I'm doing further cleanup and I'd like to know, which stats do you use? Do you use AverageDeviation (it's broken)? Should I fix it and keep it, or can I just delete it? What about the various other Distribution type stats? I've created a new Histogram stat that's like Distribution. It's needed by Ruby, but is generally pretty useful and possibly more useful than Distribution. Basically, in this stat there's a fixed number of buckets, but the bucket size grows to accommodate all of the samples. If there's an outlier, unfortunately, it could pack everything down into a small number of the buckets, but other than that, it relieves you of the burden of figuring out how big buckets should be. Anyway, I'm going through a cleanup of stuff and I want to know what I need to keep and what I can drop. Nate _______________________________________________ m5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev
