On 01/31/13 12:10 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> Even if we posit the slowdown is the same, the PR loss is not.
> 
> Say browser A takes time T to run a test, browser B takes time 1.2T and
> browser C takes time 0.8T.
> 
> Say browsers B and C both suffer a 10% regression on that test.  Now the
> times are:
> 
> A: T, B: 1.32T, C: 0.88T
> 
> From a PR point of view, the key part is that browser B is now 30%
> slower than A, but C is still 12% faster.  So it's not clear to me that
> there would be any particularly bad PR for C at all.
> 
> -Boris

While not directly relevant to this, it's worth noting that Chrome
doesn't use PGO for exactly the reason we're looking at turning it off.
(https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=21932)
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