Is there a particular reason this is landing directly to nightly rather
than using a pref experiment? A pref experiment is going to provide much
more reliable comparative data. In general we're pushing everyone to use
controlled experiments for nightly instead of landing experimental work
directly.

--BDS

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Valentin Gosu <valentin.g...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> As part of the Quantum Network initiative we are working on a project
> called "Race Cache With Network" (rcwn) [1].
>
> This project changes the way the network cache works. When we detect that
> disk IO may be slow, we send a network request in parallel, and we use the
> first response that comes back. For users with slow spinning disks and a
> low latency network, the result would be faster loads.
>
> This feature is currently preffed off - network.http.rcwn.enabled
> In bug 1366224, which is about to land on m-c, we plan to enable it on
> nightly for one or two days, to get some useful telemetry for our future
> work.
>
> For any crashes or unexpected behaviour, please file bugs blocking 1307504.
>
> Thanks!
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=rcwn
> [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1366224
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