Custom FireFox build with garbage collection
"BigPilot" <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:09:12 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.mozilla.performance |
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| 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