Does that mean that bug 964057[1] will automatically cause all self-hosting state to be shared amongst content processes, too?
[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=964057 On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Kyle Huey <m...@kylehuey.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Jason Duell <jduell.mcb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On 02/21/2014 01:38 PM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > >> > >> Greetings, > >> > >> We now live in a memory-constrained world. By "we", I mean anyone > >> working on Mozilla platform code. When desktop Firefox was our only > >> product, this wasn't especially true -- bad leaks and the like were a > >> problem, sure, but ordinary usage wasn't much of an issue. But now > >> with Firefox on Android and particularly Firefox OS, it is most > >> definitely true. > >> > >> In particular, work is currently underway to get Firefox OS working on > >> devices that only have 128 MiB of RAM. The codename for these devices > >> is Tarako (https://wiki.mozilla.org/FirefoxOS/Tarako). In case it's > >> not obvious, the memory situation on these devices is *tight*. > >> > >> Optimizations that wouldn't have been worthwhile in the desktop-only > >> days are now worthwhile. For example, an optimization that saves 100 > >> KiB of memory per process is pretty worthwhile for Firefox OS. > > > > > > Thanks for the heads-up. Time to throw > > > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=807359 > > > > back on the barbie... (Feel free to give it a new memshrink priority as > you > > see fit, Nicholas) > > > > Jason > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > It's worth noting that data that is not written to beyond process > startup will generally result in a single copy shared amongst all > content processes now thanks to Nuwa. > > - Kyle > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
