Re: Upcoming Cache Work

On 2/29/2012 5:35 AM, Patrick McManus wrote:
> I'm going to suggest dev-tech-network is the wrong level to be making
> this decision. (Ironic, I know - I'm always pushing stuff at d.t.n).
>
> But in this case this should be decision driven, imo, by the product
> teams (performance regression!) and the privacy teams. They are in the
> position to manage the tradeoff. If they come to a conclusion that this
> should be done if the hit is within some cost boundary then d.t.n seems
> like the right place to work on making that happen, fill out a product
> feature, etc.. I would ask those teams to really consider, at least in
> the initial pass, the question of "how much of a performance hit is this
> worth to you upfront" rather than punting it back and saying "how much
> would this cost?".
>

I don't really have an opinion here from a product standpoint except to 
say that the idea of implementing something that causes a pretty serious 
negative performance change isn't something that's very appealing.

--Chris