Christian Couder <christian.cou...@gmail.com> writes: >> Aside from portability of 'uname -o' Eric raised, I wonder if the >> platform information is still useful even when perf-subsection is >> specified. With the above code, we can identify that a single >> result is for (say) MacOS only when we are not limiting to a single >> subsection, but wouldn't it be equally a valid desire to be able to >> track performance figures for a single subsection over time and >> being able to say "On MacOS, subsection A's performance dropped >> between release X and X+1 quite a bit, but on Linux x86-64, there >> was no such change" or somesuch? > > Yeah, I agree that it would be useful. Unfortunately it looks like the > number of fields in Codespeed is limited and I am not sure what will > be more important for people in general.
Is there a reason why such textual labels meant for human consumption need to be two (or more) separate fields? Would simply concatenating them into a single string defeat whatever you wanted to achieve by having this information in $executable in the first place?
