Fabian Guisset wrote:
>
> Mark wrote:
>
> > Mozilla is looking better and better, but is there reason to hope it's
> > use of memory/resources will be optimized at or before 1.0?
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
>
> Since our friend JTK obliges us to answer,
Now who says I'm not contributing! ;-)
> here's my opinion on the subject:
> Question: Is there a reason to hope?
> Answer: Yes there is reason to hope, the reason is that Mozilla should
> be the best browser in the world.
And I should be both King and Pope, but what's that got to do with
"reason to hope"?
(Teehehehe, I'm rhyming!)
> Question: Is there hope?
> Answer: Yes there is hope, everyday the developers are working very hard
> optimizing the code in any way possible. Until 0.8.1 there had not been
> much performance work, but now the developers are really working on
> that.
I don't know that that's the case. What I see in .performance is Ms.
Wang making some strident yet much-needed "this is important guys"-type
pleas, and performance numbers going nowhere (other than slightly
*worse* in the last few weeks, but I'll give that the benefit of the
doubt). Now maybe there's some backroom action happening that the
public isn't privy to in this "Open" project, but I've seen no evidence
that performance (==non-insane resource hoggage) is in any respect at
the forefront moreso now than at any time in the past.
> The footprint will probably not be reduced *much* lower, although
> it does get better with every release.
No, it doesn't. Since I've been squealing about Mozilla's use of 20MB+
to display a blank page, do you know where we sit today? Yep: 20MB+ to
display a blank page. Nothing getting better there with each passing
month, let alone every release!
> I hope this answers your question, if you have a more precise question
> on the matter feel free to ask.
> Fabian.
>
> P.S: JTK talks about a "complete lack of responses" to your post. I
> would object that, this question was posted less than 24 hours ago :P
That's odd. My newsreader shows at least half a dozen postings after
Mark's that were responded to well *before* I "obliged" anybody to
respond to Mark's.
