[webkit-dev] webkit r38760 degrades performance significantly

[Simon Fraser]

On Nov 28, 2008, at 12:18 AM, Dave Cronk wrote:

> As reported earlier the r38760 build caused a 5% degradation in  
> performance on my MBP 17.  Now the r38826 build has caused a further  
> degradation. During this period the Safari browser has maintained a  
> score of about 3300.
>
> Prior to r38760 - about 830
> After r38760 - about 870

<http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/38760>

As mentioned before, this commit has no effect on the code, so any  
significant performance degradation that you are measuring here puts  
your methodology in question. Are your results repeatable?
>
> After r38826 - about 900

<http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/38826>

This also looks like it's unlikely to have performance impact.

Simon