lab 1.2 news

[Jendrik Seipp]

Hi everyone,

since the last release the experimentation framework lab has seen a lot of improvements. Some highlights are:

• Reparse an experiment directory in case you forgot to extract some values from the log.
• The "compact" parameter for DownwardExperiments now makes the experiments even more compact and during execution temporary files are properly removed to save a lot of space.
• DownwardExperiments now compile faster, because by default all available cores will be used and only the requires parts of Fast Downward will be compiled.
• The ScatterPlotReport and ProblemPlotReport classes have seen numerous improvements: You now have many more options to customize a plot's appearance and the new output filetypes pdf and eps have been added. If you fetch the latest matplotlib 1.2 release, you can even save your plots as pgf files and let Latex do the rendering.
  

I recommend reading the detailed list of changes at http://lab.readthedocs.org/en/latest/news.html.

If you haven't tried lab yet, grab the code from https://bitbucket.org/jendrikseipp/lab/ and see what it can do for you at http://lab.readthedocs.org. The docs have been kept short, but contain many tricks that make experimenting easier and faster.

Cheers,
Jendrik