Comment by ColonelPhantom
10 months ago
When computers are slow, the primary way out is finding out WHY they are slow.
Finding this out requires... meaningful performance analysis. That's right, this 1% perf hit will make it extremely easy to find the reasons for 5,10,20,50% slowdowns, and enable developers (and you!) to fix them.
By making it easier to profile software, YOU can notice performance issues in the software you're running and deliver a nice patch that will improve performance by more than was lost, making this 1% slowdown a very effective, high-interest investment.
Nice sales pitch but in reality no one is going to spend time optimizing bottlenecks that aren't repdoducible. And if you can reproduce them you can do that on systems compiled for profiling to find the cause which isn't even the hard part anyway.