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> no patch can land if it regresses benchmarked performance ..unless it fixes some important security vulnerability, one hopes..
by usefulcat 4y ago
> no patch can land if it regresses benchmarked performance
..unless it fixes some important security vulnerability, one hopes..
- mhh__ 4y agothe trick is to change the benchmark at the same time
- btown 4y agoVia https://webkit.org/performance/ https://webkit.org/performance/ : > If a patch lands that regresses performance according to our benchmarks, then the person responsible must either back the patch out of the tree or drop everything immediately and fix the regression. I imagine that a security hotfix would lead almost immediately to the second situation (perhaps as soon as the implementor had gotten some sleep!)