Custom FireFox build with garbage collection

"BigPilot" <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:09:12 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.performance
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

I'm working on a custom FireFox build with garbage collection to see if I 
can improve performance and reduce memory consumption. I have a custom build 
available if people are willing to test it (at their own risk). I will make 
source code available so people have to be able to make a FF build 
themselves (which is pretty straightforward if you follow the directions on 
the web).

The build I made modifies some of the pointers in the source code of the 
\content\html source directory with garbage collected pointers.

I also tried to modify code in the \layout\base directory but that didn't 
result in a stable executable (i.e. the program crashed at startup).

Let me know if you are interested in testing. I've only touched a small part 
of FF's code so don't expect dramatic performance increases immediately. I'm 
more interested in seeing if things keep working the way they are supposed 
to.

Cheers, BigPilot