On 8/15/2012 2:24 AM, Pedro Bessa wrote:
Ian,
Mozilla,
I thought all fast functional programming languages were
Lisp dialects, but that's not true and you can use other fast
functional programming languages, but now that you said
Rust, I think the programming language that you should use
must be
Ian,
Mozilla,
I thought all fast functional programming languages were
Lisp dialects, but that's not true and you can use other fast
functional programming languages, but now that you said
Rust, I think the programming language that you should use
must be ready for prime time, in other words, not
Hi.
I am curious if XUL Runner has an End-Of-Life policy?
Or is it intimately connected with Firefox, i.e. as long as there is Firefox
releases based on XUL there will be XUL Runner available too?
The reason I ask if because I am trying to "standardize" it within my
organization for the next 5-
have you seen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_%28programming_language%29 ?
thanks,
ian
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Subject: Re: quick! use lisp! before it's too late!
Computers have lots o
Computers have lots of cores now, so they need concurrent code and writing
concurrent code is hard in C++, but easy in functional programming languages.
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Linus Torvalds flamed C++.
- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57918
Paul Graham said his company moved faster than its competition, because his
company used Lisp.
- http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
Design Patterns are solutions to problems, but the problems shouldn't hav
Since I don't have Vista, I haven't really been able to look at bug
524337, but recently I installed a VM with Windows 8 Preview so I was
able to see what was going on.
On Windows the outer textbox is styled with the textbox appearance,
which is handled by the native theme code.
In Windows c
> But, I believe we also do silly
> things like execute some tests serially, only taking advantage of 1/N CPU
> cores in the process. This is just wasting resources. See [1] for a concrete
> example.
It would be very cool if we could run mochitests inside xvfb on Linux
(and maybe Mac?). But it is
Were you Snappy this week? Tell the world. Please update your status and any
open issues to the etherpad by EOD Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012.
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/snappy
Lawrence
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On 8/14/12 12:14 PM, Ed Morley wrote:
On Thursday, 9 August 2012 15:35:28 UTC+1, Justin Lebar wrote:
Is there a plan to mitigate the coalescing on m-i? It seems like that
is a big part of the problem.
Reducing the amount of coalescing permitted would just mean we end up with a
backlog of pe
>> Is there a plan to mitigate the coalescing on m-i? It seems like that
>> is a big part of the problem.
>
> it's simply a case of demand exceeding capacity.
Understood.
But I think my question still stands: Is there a plan to address the
fact that we do not have capacity to run all the tests w
On Thursday, 9 August 2012 15:35:28 UTC+1, Justin Lebar wrote:
> Is there a plan to mitigate the coalescing on m-i? It seems like that
> is a big part of the problem.
Reducing the amount of coalescing permitted would just mean we end up with a
backlog of pending tests on the repo tip - which wo
Reply on:
I think QA should do some exploratory testing of major new features as
time allows, but just verifying existing test cases that often are
running automatically anyhow isn't a good use of time, I guess.
Response:
QA is mostly doing that already. We try to cover as much as possible
nsnull has now been completely removed, and will no longer work:
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/fb2d41f41c15
Everyone needs to use nullptr exclusively from now on.
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Reply on:
I think QA should do some exploratory testing of major new features as
time allows, but just verifying existing test cases that often are
running automatically anyhow isn't a good use of time, I guess.
Response:
QA is mostly doing that already. We try to cover as much as possible i
The Layout, QA, and Market Insight teams recently analyzed the impact of
aliasing Webkit CSS properties in Gecko with the goal of answering the question,
Does aliasing a subset of Webkit CSS properties in Gecko improve mobile Web
compatibility?
The results thus far indicate that there is a very
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