The results page has all of the criteria.
http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/win_performance_results.html Feel free
to start testing. Heck, if you could even _automate_ timing of certain
functions, using date object constructors like |var folderTimer = new
Date();|, I would truly thank you. Manual testing is all we have, save
for Message Reply Speed, which uses a PR_LOG function and is automatic.
Performance work is a full-time job, but my work is split up between
NNTP, performance, leaks and general triaging of bugs.
And yes, I like plain talk. It's what I believe I'm doing currently.
- Stephen
JTK wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephen Donner says...
>
>>JTK, you feel like running tests on 3 platforms, every week, and posting
>>the results to Mozilla.org?
>>
>
>Do I feel like it? Hell yes I do! I've been trying to figure out how to do
>exactly that for quite a while now, as it's rather critical to the 1.0 release
>criteria which I and others drafted. Do you feel like helping me figure out how
>to do it?
>
>Two things:
>
>1. I only have two platforms available, WhyME and Why2K. Luckily they're the
>only ones that really matter (until WhyRho comes out).
>2. I want to do it daily (given a build that runs of course).
>
>>If I don't run these tests on the builds, I
>>doubt someone will find the resources to pick them up. These are still
>>beneficial to Mozilla, and if you were the least bit aware of that fact, you might
>retract your statement. Judging by your other rants in this
>>newsgroup, I'm not impressed with your candor, either.
>>
>
>You don't like plain talk? That's fine, there's room for both of us, Mozilla is
>an "Open" project.
>
>At least that's what people keep telling me.
>
>>The tests that I run are not specific to commercial builds, but I agree
>>to put a disclaimer nonetheless.
>>
>
>Well, I suppose that works too. Thank you.
>
>>- Stephen
>>
