Re: Doxygen output?

I find it a bit unfortunate that people link are removed since mozilla loses a lot of valuable resources and small test cases. With that being said I have a repo with the scripts I used to run doxygen. I think mstange might be running it somewhere. https://github.com/bgirard/doxygen-mozilla It

Re: Do we have some documents listing up when we need to touch CLOBBER?

One of my goal when introducing CLOBBER was to document what was causing us to CLOBBER so that we could audit and fix them if we ever found the time. You can get a pretty good idea by going through the history of the file. I don't believe anyone has taken to time to go through the CLOBBER hg

Re: Faster gecko builds with IceCC on Mac and Linux

Kruitbosch <gijskruitbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/07/2016 22:06, Benoit Girard wrote: > >> So to emphasize, if you compile a lot and only have one or two machines >> on your 100mps or 1gbps LAN you'll still see big benefits. >> > > I don't understand how this b

Re: Faster gecko builds with IceCC on Mac and Linux

This barely works in a office with 10MB/sec wireless uplink. Ideally you want machines to be accessible on a gigabit LAN. It's more about bandwidth throughput than latency AFAIK. i.e. can you *upload* dozens of 2-4MB compressed pre-processed file faster than you compile it? I'd imagine unless you

Re: Documentation on how to read crash reports

There's some information I've learned about reading crash reports, which is obvious now but wasn't when I was an intern many years ago, that isn't really covered by these. Here's my workflow when looking at crashes: - Windows tells you if the exception occurred during a write or read. Look at the

Re: Run firefox as headless???

If xvfb doesn't work for you then as far as I know there's no way for it to be truly headless unfortunately. Looks like slimerjs is trying to to solve this issue: https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs/issues/80 They mention using createWindowlessBrowser but I'm not familiar with it. On Thu, Apr

Re: Run firefox as headless???

Check out slimerjs: https://slimerjs.org/ On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 6:50 PM, Devan Shah wrote: > Is it possible to run firefox in headless form to fetch url and get the > full Dom as rendered. Same way it would render on normal foredox >

Re: Testing Wanted: APZ Scrollbar dragging

happens very infrequently, so I haven't been able to create > steps to reproduce, nor seen any pattern in where it triggers. > As Felipe points out this is a recent APZ regression and isn't tied to this feature. > > / Jonas > > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Benoit Gir

Re: #include sorting: case-sensitive or -insensitive?

a) It's explained in the style docs: 1. The main header: Foo.h in Foo.cpp 2. Standard library includes: #include 3. Mozilla includes: #include "mozilla/dom/Element.h" Thus you'd want the second b) I'm assuming it includes the path. That's what I've seen most of the code do too and it

Introducing MozGTestBench - Platform micro-benchmarks

In bug 1256408 I've landed code to allow adding *in-tree* platform micro-benchmarks for XUL code in less than 10 lines. These are just GTest where the execution time is reported to perfherder. This makes it easy to add low level platform micro-benchmarks for testing things that Talos is not well

Re: Proposing preferring Clang over GCC for developer buidls

Note that, as you say, the debugging information produced by the compiler and the debugger that consumes it are completely orthogonal. I've tried several times to use lldb but I keep coming back to GDB. Particularly now with RR+GDB it's light years ahead. I find that GDB works quite well with the

Re: Testing Wanted: APZ Scrollbar dragging

<nalexan...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Benoit, (possibly kats), > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Benoit Girard <bgir...@mozilla.com> > wrote: > >> Currently APZ does not cause scrollbar initiated scrolling to be async. >> I've been working in fixing this and I'd

Testing Wanted: APZ Scrollbar dragging

Currently APZ does not cause scrollbar initiated scrolling to be async. I've been working in fixing this and I'd like some help testing it out before enabling it on Nightly. If you're interested please flip 'apz.drag.enabled' to true and restart. If you find any issue please make it block

Re: rr chaos mode update

I've got RR working under digital oceans and it works great there. We've built a harness for generating replays. Once a replay is generated I match the replay with the bug and comment in the bug looking for developers to investigate. When they respond they can investigate by ssh'ing. Example:

Re: mozregression – Engineering Productivity Project of the Month

I wanted to chime-in and emphasis this: One of the first thing you do when looking at a bug is establish if it's a regression and starting with mozregression right away if it is! From my experience running mozregression for easily reproduced regressions can be done in about 10 minutes and it

Re: SPS Profiles are now captured for entire subprocess lifetime

Thanks Mike for your hard work pushing this through! In theory it does let us profile e10s on TAlos, but I'm sure well will find more usability issues. It's unclear if they will be a blocker or not. If there's outstanding issues I don't think we know about them. Please file them and CC me on any

Re: Updates to Chrome platform support

There's been discussion of dropping 10.6.0 to 10.6.2 (free upgrade path for everyone to 10.6.3+) in hope of removing a graphics workaround but it's stalled and the upside wasn't really high: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1003270 On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Chris Peterson

Re: Finding out if the main thread is currently animating

We've explored several different ways of measuring this. Several of these are in the tree. Generally what I have found the most useful is to measure how we're servicing the content' main thread. This measurement is great because its measures how responsive Firefox is not only for

Re: Decommissioning "dumbmake"

+1 For my use case breaking dumbmake is preferable given that we now have 'build binaries'. When touching commonly included header I often like to run ./mach build gfx && ./mach build binaries. This effectively let's me say 'Make sure my gfx changes are good before you recompile the rest of

Re: Building js/xul/css from Firefox faster

This is great progress! I had hope that something like this would also include the 'build binaries' DAG. It might make it slightly slower but it should still be very fast and lessen the cognitive load. I was under the impression that 'build binaries' at some point was a single DAG but it doesn't

Re: Building js/xul/css from Firefox faster

This is great progress! I had hope that something like this would also include the 'build binaries' DAG. It might make it slightly slower but it should still be very fast and lessen the cognitive load. I was under the impression that 'build binaries' at some point was a single DAG but it doesn't

Re: Is APZ meant to be a permanent part of the platform?

On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Marcus Cavanaugh wrote: > we can't > achieve flawless 60fps performance without APZ. We can get close, but any > nontrival-but-reasonable demo will encounter jank, ostensibly due to > compositing and rendering taking too much time. (APZ pathways,

Re: mach mozregression command

Yes that's a good point and a perfectly sensible. Thanks for the handy wrapper! On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 5:37 PM, J. Ryan Stinnett <jry...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Benoit Girard <bgir...@mozilla.com> > wrote: > > I just > > hop

Re: mach mozregression command

This probably doesn't need to be mentioned but I'd like to discuss it anyways: We often ask bug reporters and various non developers to run bisection for us. Maintaining mozregression to work well without a code checkout (i.e. standalone) is important. I nearly feel that it should be so easy to

Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?

Is this the data for people who are running only the latest release or some arbitrary Firefox releases where FHR/data collection is enabled? I ask because this data doesn't include any 10.4 and 10.5 usage so it's not an overall population snapshot. Sampling the crash data (very noisy I know) puts

Re: Allowing web apps to delay layout/rendering on startup

It should be represented as a color layer which is very cheap. We should only composite it once. We will use a bit of memory bandwidth but nothing major, the main thread impact should be very small. I agree, we should really have some data to support that drawing something like a display:none is

Re: Summary of e10s performance (Talos + Telemetry + crash-stats)

For the e10s talos regressions see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1174776 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1184277. We've already diagnose one source of the regression to be a difference with GC/CC behavior when running e10s talos. On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 5:44 PM,

Re: Per-test chaos mode now available, use it to help win the war on orange!

I've filed a bug for enabled Chaos Mode without recompiling: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1182516 On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:12 AM, kgu...@mozilla.com wrote: On Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 6:15:35 PM UTC-4, Chris AtLee wrote: Very interesting, thank you! Would there be a way

Re: PSA: Xcode+gecko for newbies instructional video

I did the eclipse generation. It's not really meant to compile, it's only meant for writing code ATM. The challenge with Eclipse is dealing with the CDT limitations and quirks. There's part of our code base that is correct C++ that the CDT does not understand, some of which is for performance

Re: Capturing additional metadata in moz.build files

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Gregory Szorc g...@mozilla.com wrote: * Building a subscription service for watching code and reviews They all sound great. Except I'm not sure what you mean by this one. Are you suggesting that we have something like a list of email in moz.build to register

Re: Profiling on Linux

Thanks for pointing this out, there's no single all purpose tool. Just a reminder that we have documentation on how to look into performance problems here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Performance Zoom already has a page on there. If there's any mozilla specific information

Re: NS_StackWalk is totally broken on Win64

Off the top of my head: - Are you compiling with --enable-profiling? - The actual unwind is performed by DbgHelp library. Make sure it's up-to-date. We have had this issue on windows xp that require a DbgHelp update. Unlikely for win8 but a good thing to check. - The call is made here:

Re: MozReview ready for general use

Cool. I'm eager to try this out. Sadly https://hg.mozilla.org/hgcustom/version-control-tools is giving me a 503 error at this time. On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Mark Côté mc...@mozilla.com wrote: A couple months ago I gave a sneak peak into our new repository-based code-review tool based on

Re: Intent to ship: CSS will-change

could lose their will-change optimizations because we decided to re-rasterize a scaled layer at a higher resolution. This happens seemingly unpredictably from an author' point of view. On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 3:10 PM, L. David Baron dba...@dbaron.org wrote: On Friday 2014-10-31 14:17 -0400, Benoit

Re: Intent to ship: CSS will-change

give them the performance benefits that they expect. On 2014-10-31 3:36 PM, Benoit Girard wrote: Yes, it's implemented in part 1-4 of my patch queue in bug 961871. Here's how it works -but is subject to change at any time-: - The following are all in untransformed CSS pixel unit. This makes

Re: profiler in TB

The profiler addon on TB shouldn't be using the panel. It has another piece of UI because jetpack doesn't support the panel in TB. Adding that support will make these issues go away of course. Since it's the same code base it's likely just a regression where the panel code is used in shared code.

Re: Announcing Eclipse CDT IDE Support

I believe for b2g you can use the following which will only rebuild gecko: cd objdir-gecko/ ../gecko/mach ide eclipse On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Botond Ballo bba...@mozilla.com wrote: A new command has now landed: './mach ide eclipse' Nice! Thanks for all your work on this. will

Re: gtests that start XPCOM

Like Ted mentions GTest doesn't support running test in parallel -in the same process-, you have to launch multiple processes which the ./mach gtest command helps you do. Currently GTest has a ScopedXPCOM thing. I'm not sure exactly what this implies however:

Re: Experiment with running debug tests less often on mozilla-inbound the week of August 25

I completely agree with Jeff Gilbert on this one. I think we should try to coalesce -better-. I just checked the current state of mozilla-inbound and it doesn't feel any of the current patch really need their own set of tests because they're are not time sensitive or sufficiently complex. Right

Re: Recommendations on source control and code review

I didn't know this existed. I filed bug 995763 to get this link added to the 'review requested' email to hopefully increase visibility. On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Kartikaya Gupta kgu...@mozilla.comwrote: Just a reminder that this page exists:

Re: Using preferences off the main thread now asserts

Thanks for doing this. However I feel like our options for code that need preferences off the main thread are a bit poor. The first option is to send an IPC message to the main thread but that has very poor performance, requires a lot of boilerplate code and either an sync message or

Re: Tagging legitimate main thread I/O

With the profiler' IO tracking feature we have a few options: We match certain signatures after the data is collected. + Doesn't require changes to gecko, adjustments are cheap - Matching signatures can be tricky/unreliable We instrumented gecko to allow IO between two calls + Similar to

Re: Please give ask.mozilla.org for a spin

I notice that right now we need 5 karma to up vote so there's a bit of a catch-22 for the up voting to start. I think right now it's up to the admin to get a pool of users to break the catch-22. On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Taras Glek tg...@mozilla.com wrote: Hi, A few people noticed that

Re: Should we build a new in-process unwind library?

My goal is to make SPS's stack easier to grab. SPS provides native stack (if possible) plus pseudo stack. So it generally has more data then just a native stack and is much more portable. That being said making the unwind library independent is a win-win. On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Jim

Re: OMTC for Windows users (nightly only)

Congratulations! This is a major step forward for modernizing our rendering on desktop, removing old code and simplifying how we render. This will unblock important optimizations such as OMTAnimation and APZC. I'm omitting many benefits. Great work! On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:05 AM, Nicholas

Re: PSA: The profiling branch has shut down

That's correct. It means that benchmarking on nighties isn't really accurate so beware when running web/js benchmarks. Also it is wrong to assume an average performance cost and scale the nightly results by a factor. We made this decision with the hope that we could better gather performance data

Re: Measuring power usage

You might be interested in bug 769431 where Intel modified power gadget to export symbols that the profiler can use to sample the power state and correlate it with execution. On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:02 AM, jmaher joel.ma...@gmail.com wrote: I am working on using intel power gadget to measure

Re: unified shader for layer rendering

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Andreas Gal andreas@gmail.com wrote: Rationale: switching shaders tends to be expensive. In my opinion this is the only argument for working on this at moment. Particularly at the moment where we're overwhelmed with high priority desktop and mobile

Re: You want faster builds, don't you?

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Robert O'Callahan rob...@ocallahan.orgwrote: I observe that Visual Studio builds do not spawn one cl process per translation unit. Knowing how slow Windows is at spawning processes, I suspect the build would be a lot faster if we used a single cl process to

Re: Code Review Session

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Anthony Jones ajo...@mozilla.com wrote: A pre-upload check would give the fastest feedback. I'll be checking in a script in the mozilla repo that can be ran offline and produce the same results. On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Mike Hoye mh...@mozilla.com

Re: Doxygen For Mozilla-Central Modules

Right now doxygen runs directly on the source code so it's not trivial to run doxygen on there. I'd be happy to accept a pull that builds and indexes dist/idl. On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Joshua Cranmer  pidgeo...@gmail.comwrote: On 5/1/2013 11:21 AM, Benoit Girard wrote: I'll

Re: Doxygen For Mozilla-Central Modules

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Ralph Giles gi...@mozilla.com wrote: You might consider putting only the variables you've changed in your Doxyfiles, relying on the defaults for everything else. Thanks for the feedback. I started with the config in config/doxygen.cfg.inbut it does seem

Re: reorganizing some test directories

With the fix to bug 844288 gtest will also need their own directory. I was planning on allowing users to use component/tests folder for their tests but to go in line with this upcoming change I'll update my patches and suggest that anyone who adds gtest to use component/tests/gtest to conform with

GTest has landed

] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767231 [2] http://benoitgirard.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/gtest-has-landed-start-writing-your-unit-tests/ Benoit Girard ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo

Re: GTest has landed

It's not and it's a great suggestion. I filed bug 844869. On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:04 AM, L. David Baron dba...@dbaron.org wrote: On Monday 2013-02-25 10:57 -0500, Benoit Girard wrote: GTest has landed this weekend on mozilla-central[1]. It should now be ready for developers to start writing

Re: Try Server wait times - please cancel unwanted/busted runs

Is there an API we can query to know what the estimated wait time or load for a slave pool is? Perhaps 'http://trychooser.pub.build.mozilla.org/' could be modified to give an indication of the load for a particular platform. I would be more mindful at balancing my load if the information was

Re: Try Server wait times - please cancel unwanted/busted runs

If we could expose the data via a cross domain API in text format I can modify trychooser to display loaded platforms. On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.comwrote: On 2012-12-07 1:54 PM, Benoit Girard wrote: Is there an API we can query to know what

RE: HTML depth limit?

I actually run into the same problem with the cleopatra tree widget. Each tree level adds 2 or 3 levels to the DOM for that page so I think after 100 to 200 levels the expansion stops. Ehsan mentions that we have a limit on our frame tree as we use recursion but I don't know where this code

Re: Changing reftest required resolution

I've already done this work but we decided to just increase the resolution for our tegra board: See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66 which includes an outdated patch that adds a screen(w,h) annotation to each test and a patch to compute the required size per test. On Tue, Aug