Re: ideas for returning memory to the OS

Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:34:11 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.performance
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> No. You should just clean *import* these packages and expect them 
> to be existing on the target system.

OK.  We expect them to.  They typically don't.

Now what?

> With this simple constraint, 
> development and maintenance complexity breaks down dramatically.

Yes, and the ability of users to run the application also breaks down.

> Please leave this to the distros. 

Brian was talking about the issues with msvcrt.  You responded that we 
should use a different libc.  How are distros involved in this 
dicussion, exactly?

-Boris