Re: considering how slow and bloated every mozilla app is..

On 30/08/2009 19:42, Mike Beltzner wrote:
> On 30-Aug-09, at 2:25 PM, gperry wrote:
>
>> I am not looking for support, I don't need it. I'm just surprised to
>> see so little performance related development despite reading, on
>> nearly every forum, I visit a continually stream of
>
> I've already pointed you to other forums where discussion is taking
> place, and encourage you to review and contribute in any of the
> discussions there. We discuss performance weekly at our development
> meeting. If you're interested, here are some links:
>
> bugs:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=sw:%22[ts%22
>
> project details:
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Startup_Time_Improvements
>
> meeting notes:
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2009-08-25#Startup_Performance
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2009-08-18#Startup_Performance
>
I am familiar with bugzilla, and that it also shows a lack of interest 
in performance related issues.
The other links seems to be startup time related, which is actually one 
of the least important performance aspects.

> The specific issues you are seeing are not commonplace, and all due
> respect, you're misreading the memory values between applications and
> not comparing apples to apples (for instance, the firefox.exe process
> also reports memory consumed by plugins, which iexplore.exe and
> chrome.exe do not).
Do those plugins account for the 100s of megs of aculated bloat that FF 
carries with it?
>
> If I've misread your tone,
You have indeed.