On 1/31/2013 10:51 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
On 2013-01-31 11:43 AM, Kyle Huey wrote:
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com
<mailto:ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>> wrote:

    We then tried to get a sense of how much of a win the PGO
    optimizations are.  Thanks to a series of measurements by dmandelin,
    we know that disabling PGO/LTCG will result in a regression of about
    10-20% on benchmarks which examine DOM and layout performance such
    as Dromaeo and guimark2 (and 40% in one case), but no significant
    regressions in the startup time, and gmail interactions. Thanks to
    a series of telemetry measurements performed by Vladan on a Nightly
    build we did last week which had PGO/LTCG disabled, there are no
    telemetry probes which show a significant regression on builds
    without PGO/LTCG.  Vladan is going to try to get this data out of a
    Tp5 run tomorrow as well, but we don't have any evidence to believe
    that the results of that experiments will be any different.


Isn't PGO worth something like 15% on Ts?

That was what I thought, but local measurements performed by dmandelin proved otherwise.

For what it's worth, reading <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=833890>, I do not get the impression that dmandelin "proved" otherwise. His startup tests have very low statistical confidence (n=2, n=3), and someone who disclaims his own findings. It may be evidence that PGO is not a Ts win, but it is weak evidence at best. Our Talos results may be measuring imperfect things, but we have enough datapoints that we can draw statistical conclusions from them confidently. If you want to argue to me that they're wrong, you're going to have produce more compelling evidence.
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