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

[Giovanni Manghi]

Hi Nyall



> - it's not possible to directly compare the repo provided versions vs
> self-compiled builds. They'll be built using different compilers with
> different optimisation levels. Are you able to re-run the tests which
> used the repo builds with self-compiled builds instead?


I compiled tag final-2_18_8 and I confirm that with "time" results
(start qgis + loading a large dataset) are basically the same as the
ones obtained by compiling the 2.18 branch.


cheers!

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