1840812 - 3.6% (3.9 MB) apk-size-fenixDebug (Android) regression on Thu June 15 2023

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1838709

(Firefox for Android :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Alexandru Ionescu (needinfo me) [:alexandrui]]

Perfherder has detected a build_metrics performance regression from push 6a3e558888107e82ba443f0ce749cd51f6e1b385. As author of one of the patches included in that push, we need your help to address this regression.

Regressions:

Ratio	Test	Platform	Options	Absolute values (old vs new)
4%	apk-size-fenixDebug	fenix-android-all		114,052,316.92 -> 118,163,305.00

Details of the alert can be found in the alert summary, including links to graphs and comparisons for each of the affected tests. Please follow our guide to handling regression bugs and let us know your plans within 3 business days, or the offending patch(es) may be backed out in accordance with our regression policy.

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Comment 2

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Alexandru, you resolved this Android regression as a duplicate of bug 38813, but that bug is a 24-year-old SeaMonkey bug. I assume that's not the correct bug number. :) Do you remember which bug was the actual duplicate?

Comment 3

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

I think I found it: alert bug 1838709 about Android's -O2 compiler flag change.