Hi Aaron, others, On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Aaron Klotz <akl...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> Did the now-defunct exit(0) project ever come up in this discussion? > > See bugs 662444 and 826143. This was a perf team project back in the > Snappy days where the objective was to write important data to disk ASAP, > then exit(0) without doing a bunch of cleanup. The argument for this was > that, yes, during development we want to make sure that we are properly > cleaning up after ourselves, but there is no reason for end users with opt > builds to be waiting around while Firefox spends a bunch of time destroying > things that are going to be wiped anyway by process termination. > I'd like to (re-)surface that exit(0) is never going to be feasible on Android [1]. The Android process hosts many long-lived services with lifecycles distinct from the lifecycle of the Gecko rendering engine. In some way, Fennec needs to be able to "shutdown" Gecko without Gecko killing its process. (For the record: separating Gecko into its own process is technically feasible but I expect it to be a great deal of work that I definitely think we should not do. JNI across processes is probably possible but definitely not pleasant!) Nick [1] If necessary, I can dig out Bugzilla links to discussions that have taken place about this. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
