Re: Automatic tree clobbering is coming

2013-04-17 Thread Chris Lord
Just my opinion on this, I don't care enough to argue it more than this; rm -rf any directory in response to configure, by default, is *not* expected, or reasonable behaviour. Rather than having an environment variable to turn this off, it should be the other way round. I can see people

Re: Off-main-thread Painting

2013-02-13 Thread Chris Lord
On 12 February 2013 21:57:53, Clint Talbert wrote: I agree in part with the assertion about testing - that the existing reftests will catch most regressions stemming from this. But I think we also need some measurements around scrolling/responsiveness in order to verify that off main thread

Re: Off-main-thread Painting

2013-02-12 Thread Chris Lord
On 12 February 2013 13:05:33, Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: Matt Woodrow a écrit : to improve both performance and responsiveness of the browser, we are planning on moving painting to happen on a separate thread. I think you should take some time to consider what impact it has on the