Yes. I use Instruments on Nightly builds extensively. It would really be a loss to lose this functionality. I think it's important to weigh the performance improvements that we get from easy profiling against any advantage we get from stripping the symbols.
-Jeff On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 6:07 PM, Bobby Holley <bobbyhol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Instruments is the big one that I'm aware of. > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 3:03 PM, Chris Cooper <c...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> The build peers are looking to change the way that nightlies are created >> on Mac as we switch to cross-compilation. Specifically, we're looking at >> stripping the nightlies to avoid an as-of-yet undiagnosed performance >> discrepancy vs native builds[1], but also to make the nightly configuration >> match what we ship on beta/release (stripped). >> >> Of course, stripping removes the symbols, and while we believe we have a >> solution for re-acquiring symbols that works for the Gecko Profiler, we >> realize >> that people out there may be using other profiling tools. >> >> If you profile on Mac, now is your chance to speak up. What other >> profiling tools do you use that we should be aware of? >> >> cheers, >> -- >> coop >> >> 1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1338651 >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-platform mailing list >> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform >> > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
