Re: AlacrityVM numbers updated for 31-rc4

Michael S. Zick
2009-08-12T22:05:54Z

On Wed August 12 2009, Javier Guerra wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Gregory
> Haskins<gregory.haskins@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In any case, I have updated the graphs on the AlacrityVM wiki to reflect
> > these latest numbers:
>
> pseudo-3D charts are just wrong
> (http://www.chuckchakrapani.com/articles/PDF/94070347.pdf)
>

Nice quote.

Even 15 years after it was published, those first two graphs
are prime "bad examples".

The second two could stand some improvement also - like put
the legend and numbers *on* each solid bar.

@J.G. - I think you are fighting an uphill battle here against
human nature. People tend to go with their idea of "pretty".

Mike