On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 12:25 PM Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote: > I can buy the argument that it's nice to have some form of profiling > that works everywhere, even if it's lowest-common-denominator. I just > wonder if we could be investing effort into tooling around existing > solutions that will end up more powerful and flexible in the long run.
The issue AFAICT is that running perf is done by $YOU, the specialist, whereas the performance framework put into place here can be "turned on for the whole fleet" and the ability to collect data from non-specialists is there. (Note: At GitHub you do the serving side, whereas Google, MS also control the shipped binary on the client side; asking a random engineer to run perf on their Git thing only helps their special case and is unstructured; what helps is colorful dashboards aggregating all the results from all the people). So it really is "works everywhere," but not as you envisioned (cross platform vs more machines) ;-)
