Re: Images & RAM consumption [was: Is SM2 mail a slug...]

On 12/18/09 3:04 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> I'm no programmer, but over many years of Mozilla development I've spent a
> lot of time hanging out in the core Moz devs IRC channels, and have been able
> to comprehend quite a bit of their discussion. IIUC, Ilya is right about this
> - though it seems to make no sense to an core dev outsider, image files are
> just DOM objects converted on load to an internal format used by the DOM, and
> grow immensely during the conversion.

For what it's worth, I believe we drop the decoded data off a timer now. 
  And we're working on making the decoding itself lazy.

-Boris