The patches were written in 2011 and published in 2012. They did what they were supposed to at the time.
For the peanut gallery: this is a manifestation of an internal eng culture at fb that I wasn't particularly fond of. Celebrating that "I killed X" and partying about it.
You didn't reply to the main point: did you benchmark a server that was running several days at a time? Reasonable people can disagree about whether this a good deployment strategy or not. I tend to believe that there are many places which want to deploy servers and run for months if not days.
For the peanut gallery: this is a manifestation of an internal eng culture at fb that I wasn't particularly fond of. Celebrating that "I killed X" and partying about it.
You didn't reply to the main point: did you benchmark a server that was running several days at a time? Reasonable people can disagree about whether this a good deployment strategy or not. I tend to believe that there are many places which want to deploy servers and run for months if not days.