Patchbot warnings about "increased startup time"

[Nathann Cohen]

Hello everybody,

Once in a while one of my tickets is flagged by the patchbot as
"increasing startup time". Sometimes I add a function or two and thus
wonder if I did something wrong, but in this specific case I am
relatively confident that I didn't do anything that might have
increased startup time:

Could somebody who knows about such matters see why the patchbot
reports this ticket as impacting Sage's startup time?

http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/19564

All it does is remove some pointers from a C++ file.

Thanks,

Nathann

[Frédéric Chapoton]

Because this is a very flaky plugin, its results must be human-interpreted and not taken a a rule of law.

More generally, the patchbots are there to warn you, but full green light is not a mandatory requirement.