Re: ideas for returning memory to the OS

"Mike Shaver" <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:36:31 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.performance
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Dec 11, 2007 3:21 PM, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mike Shaver wrote:
> > It's also rare to find cairo bundled with Windows, at least up here in Canada.
>
> I assume Enrico's argument is that someone compiling Mozilla should just go
> download cairo from cairographics.org.  We'd have to ship our own cairo lib, of
> course; the only question is where the source of what we ship lives.

If that's the case, I have a hard time understanding how the
source-tree location of the dependent libraries affect our memory
usage, which Enrico seemed quite confident was in part due to the use
of such libraries.

Mike