Previously reduce iterators just separated points by tags. If you had
identical tags but different names, it would group those together so you
could have these two points:
cpu value=1
mem value=2
When you performed a `mean(value)` call and included both cpu and mem as
sources, it would return one mem series with a value of 1.5 instead of
two serieses.
last() would always return the last output of the iterator (which isn't
necessarily the last time value due to how the merge iterator works) and
first() would always return the first output of the iterator (wrong for
the same reason).
Now the time is kept by the reduce function and the times are wiped as
part of the reduce iterator after the value has been found.
Ben Johnson
Jonathan A. Sternberg