On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:42:43AM -0400, Mike Hoye wrote: > On 2014-04-25, 3:31 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > >On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoi...@gmail.com> > >wrote: > >>> * How should we identify code that we build but that isn't used > >>>anywhere? > >>I'm afraid we need humans for that. > >Yeah, but how do we get humans to do that? > > > We ask them! There are thousands of people out there who want to help us do > stuff, if we can give them the right stuff to do. > > Noob question here: how accessible is the profiling process, and can > we/would it be useful to make that participatory?
Well, it really depends how you approach the problem of finding code thats dead. One way is to decide code really should be dead by reading it and knowing what it accomplishes doesn't matter. Another is to prove to your self that code is unreachable and so can be removed without effecting anything. Both of these require a pretty good bit of knowledge and skill. On the other hand the below question prompts another approach. > If we ask a thousand people to run a nightly under a profiler for a few days > and aggregated the results, would that be valuable information? If the users are a good distribution and we collect a list of every function we run we should be able to compare that to a list of things that go into libxul, and maybe we'd find something useful. Trev > > - mhoye > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
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