[Qgis-psc] Performance regressions (was QGIS 2.18 bug fixing effort)

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 24/05/2017 14:25, Matthias Kuhn ha scritto:
> I think this is still usable (qgis_bench IIRC).
> 
> What it does: give usable measurements when executed on the same
> environment for different projects, different QGIS versions, different
> build parameters, different databases...
> 
> What it not does: produce values that are comparable when executed on a
> non-stable system like travis CI. Performance on this system varies from
> day to day and we are never sure if a code change or some other change
> on the system (hardware, software, operating system...) is responsible
> for some measured "performance regression".

Thanks Matthias for reminding.
So it would be best to run it in an isolated, predictable environment.
Would a VM do? I think we could find the resources for it, even if this
would require having a dedicated server.
All the best.
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