On 7 April 2013 05:24, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: > On 4/6/2013 7:26 PM, Greg Trasuk wrote: > ... > > Once we have a stable set of regression tests, then OK, we could >> think about improving performance or using Maven repositories as the >> codebase server. >> > ... > > I think there is something else you need before it would be a good idea to > release any changes for the sake of performance - some examples of > workloads whose performance you want to improve, and that are in fact > improved by the changes. >
Indeed. And if we do these changes in a confined, one small step at a time type fashion, we can build micro-benchmarks as we go along. Later, if it makes sense we can look at more macro tests such as e.g. Lookup or JavaSpace or Transaction etc.
