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English => en_Bugs => Topic started by: catface on December 23, 2003, 07:46:37 AM

Title: Re: DL Stat error
Post by: catface on December 23, 2003, 07:46:37 AM
but that's a bug anyway
Title: Re: DL Stat error
Post by: EmilioSandoz on December 23, 2003, 11:44:24 AM
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Original von catface

but that's a bug anyway


Is it a bug, or is it a feature?  Get me right, I have no ego invested in the present functionality.  But before I go in and change the code somebody else wrote, I'd like to better understand why it was designed the way it is.  Did the original author(s) of the stat window want a simple smoothing functionality, and were just not familiar with digital filters?  Or did they think it was useful to have the graph show the exact average of the last x minutes?  I have a background in measurement and control engineering, and I could argue either position, even if, both as a user and programmer, I personally prefer a low-pass filter over a window averaging algorithm ... In an open-source project with the usual dearth of documentation such a question requires some investigative skills ;-)  

- E.