*UI Jank Task Force Status Updates*
The UI Jank Task Force is out to fix UI Jank and slowness in the browser. A
list of open Jank bugs is here:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list?q=label:Jank (feel free to
take one!)
*Updates*
Chase
- Added tab switch paint histogram.
- Found a deeper problem on xp perf bots, working with Nicolas to
resolve.
- Will have tab-switching test results this week.
John
- Moved launching of renderer process off UI thread.
- On POSIX, up to 2s of sleep when killing off renderer process.
- Change going out today.
- Will work on moving creation of other types of processes off UI
thread.
Carlos
- Built PGO built on a bot with 24GB!
- Not measuring any improvement. Training set was opening a bunch of
pages (10MB).
- Results about PGO's efficacy are inconclusive.
- Using time of UI test runs...still investigating a better measurement
and better training sets.
Evan
- Landed patch to move spellchecker to renderer on Windows, wrote it on
Mac.
- Caused reliability regressions, memory corruption.
- Posting Task when creating spellcheck host. Investigating now.
Tony
- Tracking down crashers for Mstone 4.
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