What's the state of pref experiments? I thought they were not yet ready. -Ekr
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 7:15 AM, Benjamin Smedberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a particular reason this is landing directly to nightly rather > than using a pref experiment? A pref experiment is going to provide much > more reliable comparative data. In general we're pushing everyone to use > controlled experiments for nightly instead of landing experimental work > directly. > > --BDS > > On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Valentin Gosu <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > As part of the Quantum Network initiative we are working on a project > > called "Race Cache With Network" (rcwn) [1]. > > > > This project changes the way the network cache works. When we detect that > > disk IO may be slow, we send a network request in parallel, and we use > the > > first response that comes back. For users with slow spinning disks and a > > low latency network, the result would be faster loads. > > > > This feature is currently preffed off - network.http.rcwn.enabled > > In bug 1366224, which is about to land on m-c, we plan to enable it on > > nightly for one or two days, to get some useful telemetry for our future > > work. > > > > For any crashes or unexpected behaviour, please file bugs blocking > 1307504. > > > > Thanks! > > > > [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=rcwn > > [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1366224 > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
