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Re: performance tests

From: Fabian Keil via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2023 14:52:05 +0100

Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote on 2023-02-09 at 12:28:58:

> On Thu, 9 Feb 2023, Fabian Keil via curl-library wrote:
>
> > Long story short: I'd be interested to collaborate on creating curl
> > performance tests so I can leverage them to test Privoxy as well.
>
> I would imagine that we should start by making some infra to run "something"
> and then run that same "something" subsequently on fresh builds and output the
> results. This way we could detect slow-degrades (multi-days/weeks) and quick
> degrades (single commit). Also, some degradations have to be acceptable, for
> example if we add/change functionality etc.
>
> The complicated thing is of course that "performance" is a tricky beast and
> running things and timing them is difficult to get stable and avoiding false
> positives.
>
> Then over time extend what we run and monitor to cover more functionality.

Sounds good to me.

I still have to upstream my cts patch set for Privoxy but once
that's done I can look into adding new curl tests etc.

In the mean time I'll keep an eye on the curl commits to
see if anyone beats me to it ...

Fabian


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