On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:48 PM, Henri Sivonen <hsivo...@hsivonen.fi> wrote:
>
> Are static atoms and the HTML parser's pre-interned element name and
> attribute name objects that are on the heap shared between processes
> under Nuwa already? I.e. is the heap cloned with copy-on-write
> sharing? On the memory page granularity, right? Do we know if the
> stuff we heap-allocate at startup pack nicely into memory pages so
> that they won't have "free" spots that the allocator would use after
> cloning?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=948648 is open for
investigating this. Preliminary results seem to indicate that things
work pretty well at the moment -- i.e. not much sharing is lost -- but
I may be misinterpreting.

Nick
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