What a day...

So this morning I submitted my pre-final core patch for review and got some very positive feedback. In fact it seems that as far as the core patch goes it will remain mostly the same from now until the 1.0 release. It is also ready to be checked into the tree but will most likely not make it into FF3.

In addition to releasing the latest patch, I had also created a performance test that allows a user to time how long calls made from JavaScript to an exposed Actionscript function take. The idea behind this was to run the test on a fresh build and then run this same test on a build that includes my patch. By comparing the two, it should be possible to determine what sort of overhead my code creates.

Below are the latest 2 tests that I have run:

Here is the result from test run number 1

	PW ON	PW OFF
Test 1	3135	3174
Test 2	3144	3156
Test 3	3139	3130
Test 4	3140	3175
Test 5	3161	3135
Test 6	3144	3153
Test 7	3156	3173
Test 8	3154	3139
Test 9	3146	3165
Test 10	3153	3154
Average	3147.2	3155.4

And some screen shots:

Test run with PW OFF:

Test run with PW ON:

Test 1 data plotted on a bar graph:

Test number one was run on minefield 3.0pre, with PW OFF running first.

And here is the result from test run number 2

	PW ON	PW OFF
Test 1	3176	3142
Test 2	3399	3160
Test 3	3197	3137
Test 4	3142	3159
Test 5	3155	3137
Test 6	3172	3141
Test 7	3152	3167
Test 8	3177	3148
Test 9	3166	3148
Test 10	3165	3162
Average	3190.1	3150.1

And some more screen shots:

Test run with PW OFF:

Test run with PW ON:

Test 2 data plotted on a bar graph:

Test number two was also run on minefield 3.0pre, with PW ON running first.

What these runs suggest is that the overhead that is created by my code is so minute that the difference simply "drowns" in the noise. As Chris Tyler (ctyler) put it, that places it firmly "into [the] 'who cares' territory". I tend to agree!