DustMite: the General-Purpose Data Reduction Tool (from the D Blog)

[WebFreak001]

On Monday, 13 April 2020 at 13:06:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Vladimir has contributed to the blog an article on the 
> evolution of DustMite, looking at some of the challenges he had 
> to overcome along the way.
>
> The blog:
> https://dlang.org/blog/2020/04/13/dustmite-the-general-purpose-data-reduction-tool/
>
> Reddit:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/g0ihse/dustmite_the_generalpurpose_data_reduction_tool/

very nice article! Before I was never sure what I could even use 
dustmite for and rarely ever used it, but having been shown all 
these use cases here gives me a lot of ideas for how to 
potentially use it.

I really like all the diagrams and animations in the blog post 
too, they make it a lot more intuitive to grasp what was being 
done. Though I think some diagrams could have used a little more 
labels on what the colors, shapes and numbers mean.

Also for the performance changes: what do the numbers mean in the 
diagram there? Is higher better? What exactly is the unit of 
these numbers? Should I even read it from top to bottom or from 
bottom to top like usual git logs? Why did it jump from 487 to 
200 and is that good or bad?