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.. _plugins/compare:

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Product Comparison (--compare)
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SIERRA supports a number of comparator plugins, all of which can be used to
compare products/deliverables generated in stage 4 in some way.

Before reading this page, take a look at :ref:`concepts/exp-design`,
which details how SIERRA experiments are architected at a high-level; these
plugins tie in heavily to that architecture. Specifically, see :ref:`here
<concepts/dataflow/stage5>` for information about how output data flows/is
transformed during stage5 processing.

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   :maxdepth: 1

   graphs