On 02/21/2014 01:38 PM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
Greetings,
We now live in a memory-constrained world. By "we", I mean anyone
working on Mozilla platform code. When desktop Firefox was our only
product, this wasn't especially true -- bad leaks and the like were a
problem, sure, but ordinary usage wasn't much of an issue. But now
with Firefox on Android and particularly Firefox OS, it is most
definitely true.
In particular, work is currently underway to get Firefox OS working on
devices that only have 128 MiB of RAM. The codename for these devices
is Tarako (https://wiki.mozilla.org/FirefoxOS/Tarako). In case it's
not obvious, the memory situation on these devices is *tight*.
Optimizations that wouldn't have been worthwhile in the desktop-only
days are now worthwhile. For example, an optimization that saves 100
KiB of memory per process is pretty worthwhile for Firefox OS.
Thanks for the heads-up. Time to throw
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=807359
back on the barbie... (Feel free to give it a new memshrink priority as
you see fit, Nicholas)
Jason
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