It's not exactly a knee jerk reaction. We discussed this quite a while ago as I mentioned earlier and there were more arguments in favor of turning these off. It's just that the work was never done. And in the mean time we have got much more useful test suites, such as AWSY which actually help us catch memory usage regressions.
Cheers, -- Ehsan <http://ehsanakhgari.org/> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Doug Turner <doug.tur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Makes me sad that the knee jerk reaction is to turn leak testing off > before anyone actually does any engineering. Steven, anyone else that can > take a look at this mac bug? > >> Steven Michaud <mailto:smich...@pobox.com> >> July 15, 2013 2:15 PM >> >> I'd say go ahead and shut them off. >> >> I'm not going to have time to investigate this for the foreseeable >> future. I'm already dealing with one very difficult (and possibly >> intractable) tests bug >> (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=884471<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=884471>), >> and that's more >> than enough at one time :-( >> >> Doug Turner <mailto:doug.tur...@gmail.com> >> July 15, 2013 2:07 PM >> >> Has a developer investigated? Steven, do you know anything about this? >> >> doug >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/**listinfo/dev-platform<https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform> > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
