https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34493
--- Comment #5 from Marek Olšák maraeo@gmail.com 2011-03-01 17:19:14 PST --- (In reply to comment #4)
(In reply to comment #3)
There will be more performance improvements soon. I know how to improve it by 50% or more, it's just not very high on my priority list currently.
Oh! Well, thank you for that (in advance)!
My purpose in testing for regressions was to find a way to contribute back to the community. Since I am not (yet) able to write code, or properly debug code, I thought I could at least report changes in performance and/or behavior in the build systems. I'm getting the vibe that reporting performance regressions is not deemed a meaningful way to contribute. Is that correct?
It's very useful to report performance regressions. Just in this case, it's not obvious to me what's wrong with the commit. There are not many developers, so it might be hard to get attention quickly especially if it's not a show-stopper, but developers usually read bug reports and, thanks to that, are aware of existing issues.