Sorry, one last thing I would be interested in looking into: fault Tolerance
of shared state.

In particular, can a crashing process currently break shared data structures
thus breaking the whole browser (e.g. leaving shared data structures in an
inconsistent state)?

Thanks,

Fady

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Adam Langley <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Fady Samuel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I am aware there will be synchronization issues. I am a grad student who
> has
> > been studying concurrent and lock-free data structures for a while now.
> I'm
> > actually hoping to apply some of my research in Chromium as a proof of
> > concept.
> > I'm also interested in looking into state that is already shared but
> makes
> > excessive use of locking and may be hindering performance. Any shared
> state
> > applying iterators of some kind would be interesting as well for me.
>
> On Linux (only) the Skia glyph caches are replicated across renderers.
>
>
> AGL
>

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