With a whole lot of help from my friends (dbaron, mcafee, and jrgm to name a few), I've managed to get a tinderbox running a ``loopback'' version of jrgm's Performance Tests (tm); it's ``btek'' and is currently on the SeaMonkey-Ports page,
<http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=SeaMonkey-Ports> It's doing an optimized, depend, browser-only, Linux build (to turn around quickly), and then running jrgm's test harness to a webserver installed on the same machine (to hopefully eliminate as much noise as possible). It is reporting jrgm's ``average page load time'', and appears to be fairly stable -- i.e., typically varying less than 1% from run to run. The tinderbox log contains the detailed output of the performance test (i.e., the individual page load times). All ye lovers of layout, keep an eye on this tinderbox: I hope that it will allow us to catch performance regressions much more quickly (because we can narrow the Window of Shame to an hour's worth of checkins, instead of a day's worth). chris
