:: 16-Sep-1999 20:43 (Thursday) ::
Just a quick update, but a pretty momentous one. The first (and most
crucial) step to getting history graphs back online has been passed.
As I’ve explained earlier, the implementation of retiring emails had
significantly increased the complexity (and cost) of running history
queries. This is why we haven’t really rushed to get those queries
re-implemented.
It finally dawned on me today how to accomplish the historical query
at a reasonable speed and still incorporate retired emails into the
equation. This also marks the return of the fabled _raw queries from
the old statsbox.
http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/phistory_raw.php3?id=1
As you can see, it’s really not much to look at yet, but your scripts
should love it. Next step is to make a pretty, human-readable version
and then we do graphs. The hard part is behind us at this point.
Time to throw on the headphones, crank up some crunchy guitar and
start coding furiously. :)