> In hindsight, making the sync point be paid for all users was a mistake, and an opt-in flag would have been the better option
Yep. It was mentioned on the original patch’s mailing list discussion, but the cost was thought to be small. Just goes to show again that “intuition” about software perf is generally ~useless. The only way to know is to measure.
> will need to try it out before as it's a paid tool
I think it’s totally worth it, but I’m biased ;-) Note that the Linux version is currently in private alpha, and not generally available yet. Hopefully soon though!
> In hindsight, making the sync point be paid for all users was a mistake, and an opt-in flag would have been the better option
Yep. It was mentioned on the original patch’s mailing list discussion, but the cost was thought to be small. Just goes to show again that “intuition” about software perf is generally ~useless. The only way to know is to measure.
> will need to try it out before as it's a paid tool
I think it’s totally worth it, but I’m biased ;-) Note that the Linux version is currently in private alpha, and not generally available yet. Hopefully soon though!