Oh yes, you're right. That said, of course, "smoothness" is something all
app developers should be shooting for, so it might be worth adding a whole
new section just with tips on how to be smooth.

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Milan Sreckovic <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Valid point, and something we should be doing, but just to be sure - Silk
> is about “smoothness”, rather than “performance”.  In other words, the
> claim is that, say, 50 well placed frames are better than 60 poorly spaced
> frames.  You may have heard the term “frame uniformity” being bounced
> around, and a bunch of others, but Silk as such should not be expected to
> increase the number of frames that you see.  You’ll just enjoy the ones you
> do see more :)
> —
> - Milan
>
>
>
> On Jan 26, 2015, at 17:15 , Eric Shepherd (Sheppy) <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Also, if you (or anyone) have any tips for maximizing graphics performance
> in Firefox OS apps, please let me know. I'd like to keep collecting these
> to put on MDN.
>
> In particular, these pages should have any ideas you have added to them as
> appropriate (you can do it, or you can send ideas to me or to Chris Mills
> and we'll handle it for you);
>
>
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Build/Performance/App_performance_validation
>
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Build/Performance/Performance_fundamentals
>
> Or actually to any of the pages under
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Build/Performance
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Mason Chang <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Silk, which is a project to improve smoothness across Firefox OS has
>> started to land. There are three parts to it, which you can read more about
>> here (http://www.masonchang.com/blog/2015/1/22/project-silk). Today, I
>> just enabled the vsync compositor which should create smoother animations,
>> which includes scrolling. However, it is quite a big change and we expect
>> some problems. If you find any bugs, please file them as a dependent of bug
>> 1118530 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1118530). You can
>> always test the bug by disabling these two prefs:
>>
>> gfx.vsync.hw-vsync.enabled
>> gfx.vsync.compositor
>>
>> Note: You need a kit-kat based device. I’ve tested on a flame with v180
>> base image and above. Any base image below v180 or non kit-kat based
>> devices have known issues.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mason
>>
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