1853275 - 0.2 - 0.04% installer size / installer size (OSX) regression on Fri September 8 2023

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Security: PSM, defect)

Description

[Acasandrei Beatrice (needinfo me)]

Perfherder has detected a build_metrics performance regression from push 11f37b4f2aea6e54406732aa21d33720ea4a30a0. 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)
0.20%	installer size	osx-aarch64-shippable	aarch64 nightly	83,336,774.75 -> 83,501,940.08
0.04%	installer size	osx-aarch64-shippable	aarch64 nightly	83,382,466.92 -> 83,418,313.50

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 1

[Benjamin Beurdouche [:beurdouche]]

This new version of NSS contains new cryptographic code necessary for the security of our products, the size of that code cannot be reduced for execution performance reasons.