Re: PSA: The profiling branch has shut down

2013-11-12 Thread Benoit Girard
That's correct. It means that benchmarking on nighties isn't really accurate so beware when running web/js benchmarks. Also it is wrong to assume an average performance cost and scale the nightly results by a factor. We made this decision with the hope that we could better gather performance data

Re: PSA: The profiling branch has shut down

2013-11-10 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On 2013-11-09 6:30 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 11/9/13 12:53 PM, Philip Chee wrote: Not directly related but. Some time back I wanted to turn on profiling for SeaMonkey on our trunk builds but was vetoed because turning on profiling (I was told) causes a pref hit. It does, but a pretty small o

Re: PSA: The profiling branch has shut down

2013-11-09 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 11/9/13 12:53 PM, Philip Chee wrote: Not directly related but. Some time back I wanted to turn on profiling for SeaMonkey on our trunk builds but was vetoed because turning on profiling (I was told) causes a pref hit. It does, but a pretty small one, and only on x86-32 (because there is one

Re: PSA: The profiling branch has shut down

2013-11-09 Thread Philip Chee
On 09/11/2013 02:38, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I set up the profiling branch a long time ago to build mozilla-central > without the --enable-profiling option to catch any regressions that happen > in those builds to minimize the chance of things blowing up after an uplift > to Aurora

PSA: The profiling branch has shut down

2013-11-08 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
Hi everyone, I set up the profiling branch a long time ago to build mozilla-central without the --enable-profiling option to catch any regressions that happen in those builds to minimize the chance of things blowing up after an uplift to Aurora (which is always built without --enable-profiling.)