Title: Necko, Imagelib and XPCOM's status submitted on 2001-12-17

Necko, Imagelib and XPCOM's status

submitted on 2001-12-17

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Summary
  • gagan
    • Bug fixing, triaging continues
    • Documentation on Necko updated at mozilla.org
    • http://status/reports/ demo'ed at all-hands
Highlights
  • darin
    • fixed bug 47617 "Connection to https needs to tell user to install PSM if w/o"
    • fixed bug 113949 "Trunk crash [@ nsFileTransport::Process]"
    • fixed bug 114660 "data: URLs get sent as http-referer"
    • fixed bug 115129 "stream loader optimizations"
    • fixed bug 114286 "No way to determine if a http request was a 304 or not."
    • filed bugs for a number of small startup/page-load optimizations in necko, roughly 3% worth of startup improvement.
    • presented a general overview of necko on monday.
    • attended IDN overview and demo meeting on friday.
    • worked on necko documentation.
    • triaged bugs.
  • neeti
    • Fixed bug 114439 - nsFileTransportService should cache the mime service.
    • Triaged bugs.
    • Measured page load times by removing all the monitors using proxies for nsComponentManager. We get very erratic results. Results range from 7% to 0% improvement.
  • gordon
    • Squishing bugs:
    • WONFIX bug 89903 "Slow Page Load with Cache on Remote Drive"
    • FIXED bug 84531 "DNS cache eviction count not always decremented"
    • WORKSFORME bug 108388 "Caching of DNS entries has stopped"
    • WORKSFORME bug 92069 "MacBinary is recognized as Untyped binary data"
    • create patch for bug 110405 "Assertions in cache code"
    • duped and triaged more bugs.
    • worked on bug 105344 "Memory cache pref should be a percentage of physical RAM"
    • worked on bug 81724 "disk cache needs stream wrappers"
  • dougt
    • Changed file protocol to optionally generate html content for embedding customers. 115135
    • Investigated cost of PRLock locking against a simple Spin LOCK in component manager - No detectible difference.
    • (Again) asked for feedback on the nsIComponentManager interface changes.
    • Investigated reducing stat calls when file code need to produce a url string. 106815.
    • Reviewed a bunch of patches including Pavlov's timer code 115473.
  • pavlov
    • Bug 78611. Landed new XP timer code.
    • Bug 108161 has a fix for the multiple reloading of images on reload/shift reload. Probably won't land it until I get back from vacation.
  • gagan
    • attending several meetings as virtual Clayton. Still alive.
    • submitted patches for bug 89701
    • added support for automatic bug links in status reports (converting bug numbers to bugzilla/bugscape links)
    • finally demo'ed status reports at the all hands.
    • helped DP with his linux problems :-)
    • attended exec reviews for AIM, Navigator and JS2(dry run)
    • attended Focal Pt. Training
    • pushed updated documentation for Necko onto mozilla.org site.
Lowlights
  • gordon
    • The tree never seems open during the day...
Plans for next week
  • darin
    • fix more bugs for 0.9.8 before taking off for the holidays.
    • triage bugs for 0.9.8 milestone.
  • gordon
  • pavlov
    • More bug triage.
    • Starting vacation on December 19. I'll be back on January 2.
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