Re: Relieving some ClassLoader contention in PreferredClassProvider

Mark Brouwer wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> Dan Creswell wrote:
>
>> Unless we're going to define a set of platforms across which to make
>> judgements/perform benchmarks, I don't see how to get a useful
>> indication.
>
> I indicated there is no official benchmark so I'm well aware of all the
> things you mentioned. But I can hardly belief this change went in
> without doing any benchmarking to see whether it didn't make things
> worse for some typical use cases.
>

One man's typical use-cases are another's corner-cases.

> I left it up to the person(s) responsible for this improvement (?) to
> share with us what he knows, dismissing such a question on forehand and
> to keep myself wondering about the positiveness of this change or to
> spend a significant amount of time on something that might be lying on
> somebody's desk seems less effective.
>

I'm not dismissing the question, I'm wondering about the
usefulness/validity of the question.

> Also I think that if you make improvements to Blitz in the concurrency
> area you will test to get a feeling of the perceived improvement. And of
> course you should make the standard disclaimer that everybody must check
> on its typical scenario/hardware/OS, etc. whether he or she gets the
> same/less or better numbers.

Humour or no, that's getting a bit personal dude and could be taken the
wrong way.

Dan.

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