Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
> *) For off-cycle release work that would help enable patches with
> complex performance trade-offs (I'm working up another patch that has
> even more compelling benefits and risks in the buffer allocator), We
> desperately need a standard battery of comprehensive performance tests
> and doner machines.
Such a thing would vastly reduce the time needed to work on
something like this with confidence that it would not be a disaster
for some unidentified workload. Sure, something could still "slip
though the cracks" -- but they would *be* cracks, not a wide gaping
hole.
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Kevin Grittner
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