Firefox OS/Performance/Tools

Progress

Dashboards

• Using Datazilla
• Using Eideticker
  • Measuring Entropy

Handling Regressions

• Bisecting
• Root-Causing
• Reverting
  • update tree
  • git revert -m1 originalCommitHash. -m1 is only needed if the original commit was a merge.
  • git push

Instrumentation

• Automation & Testing
• Data Sources & Tools for FxOS Performance Optimization

Profiling

• Power
• Speed
• Memory
  • MemShrink
  • Reporting
  • Stress Testing
• Mock Data
  • Reference Workloads (via Gaia build targets)
  • B2G Populate (via Automation Team)
• Valgrind

References

• Building FirefoxOS with Distcc
• perf: the good, the bad, the ugly
• Remote Debugging Protocol
• RILAnalyzer