Fedoras' poor performance in test
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Mon Aug 3 20:15:20 UTC 2009
Jesse Keating wrote:
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>
> On Jul 28, 2009, at 3:08, Karel Volný <kvolny at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>
>> ...
>>> You cannot reliably "benchmark" rawhide performance nor should
>>> we even try. Identifying and fixing bugs comes first, *tuning*
>>> comes later.
>>
>> pathetic performance *is* a *bug*
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>
> Rawhide has lots of debugging turned on in various places so it is not
> suitable for benchmarking until this is removed. Target beta or the
> final release.
>
Isn't that way too late? I can't imagine any developer taking time away from
getting new exciting features in the release just to make the system usably fast
again. And testing with debug on can mask functional problems, been there, done
that.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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