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Subject: Re: Apparent performance regression 8.3@ -> 8.4@r255966?
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
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Hi David,

How about just picking a revision of stable/8 half way between the good and
not good version, then re-test?

It'd help to narrow down the range of commits that could've caused problems.



-adrian