Re: ideas for returning memory to the OS

Enrico Weigelt <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:17:50 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.performance
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* 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.  

Of course. But folks - developers and distro maintainers - 
normally have to download a lot of other packages (or let their
packaging systems do that job). 

> We'd have to ship our own cairo lib, of course;

Really ?!
AFAIK, mozilla can use an already installed cairo
(at least "--enable-system-cairo" implies that).

cu
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