brainstorming for UDS-N - Performance

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Kees Cook wrote on 30/09/10 23:10:
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> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 07:43:49PM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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>> Measurement. Where can I go to see the equivalent of Firefox's
>> <http://arewefastyet.com/> for Ubuntu startup speed? Where's the
>> equivalent graph for Ubiquity? For Unity? For Ubuntu Software Center?
>> How much better or worse is yesterday's Natty nightly compared with
>> Ubuntu 10.10? With Ubuntu 10.04 LTS?
>...
> Changes to the compiler toolchain, the kernel, etc, all have an impact
> on everyone's workloads, but most teams haven't actually stepped
> forward and said "THIS workload is important to us, here's how to
> reproduce the measurement, and here's where we're tracking the daily
> changes to that measurement."
>...

Have you asked them why that is? Maybe they don't know how to automate
the measurement, where to host it, or who to tell about it.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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