While I'm sure any and all hacks of mine in this department will be rather appreciated, it probably won't hurt if I start with whatever was wished for in particular this time. :-) Some possibilities:
[*] jhs Build (SVG) graph from the -x benchmark results Pikefarm delivers to track development. [*] The smallest possible hack that presents performance-over-time with possibility to adjust the versions involved. The smallest possible because it is rather important that it gets done. Other stuff is very much appriciated but not as important for operation.
The only alternative that I'm quite sure about how to cast nicely into graphics at the moment is the sparkline view, but ideas will probably abound as I start playing with it. Requests, inspirational links and ideas about useful (or pretty, I guess :-) ways to present figures like those below are of course very welcome:
test total user mem (runs) Pike start overhead........ 0.272s 0.001s 8676kb (19)
^-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pike start overhead (Lower is better) | Baselines | | | | | | Latest tags | | ++ | | | ++ || | +-+ | | || || ++ | | | | | || || || | +-+ | | | | || || || | | | | | | | || || || | | | | | | | ++ ++ ++ | +-+ +-+ | | 2671 2671 2672 | 7.6.120 7.7.38 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+