Re: WebP support

2013-04-08 Thread Jeff Muizelaar
No decision has been made yet. We are still evaluating the format. -Jeff On 2013-04-08, at 5:09 AM, David Bruant wrote: Hi, (I'm not 100% sure this is the proper mailing list to ask this question, but I can't think of a more relevant mailing-list at this time. Please forward if

Re: WebP support

2013-04-08 Thread Ralph Giles
On 13-04-08 4:06 AM, Jeff Muizelaar wrote: No decision has been made yet. We are still evaluating the format. I think the concern is that none of that re-evaluation has been on a public list or bug I've seen. Can you clarify what Andreas meant by, new data that shows that WebP has valid use

Re: WebP support

2013-04-08 Thread Jeff Muizelaar
Sure. Everything.me was seeing large gains when using lossy image compression with an alpha channel compared to png. This isn't a surprise but it's a use case that's not well supported by the current image formats we support. -Jeff On 2013-04-08, at 12:53 PM, Ralph Giles wrote: On 13-04-08

Re: WebP support

2013-04-08 Thread Ralph Giles
On 13-04-08 10:02 AM, Jeff Muizelaar wrote: Sure. Everything.me was seeing large gains when using lossy image compression with an alpha channel compared to png. This isn't a surprise but it's a use case that's not well supported by the current image formats we support. At least not since we

Re: Replacing gcc 4.5 as the default Linux compiler?

2013-04-08 Thread Robert Kaiser
Gabriele Svelto schrieb: On 05/04/2013 01:49, Robert Kaiser wrote: Though its feature set seems to be quite helpful for us: http://lwn.net/Articles/543570/ Makes me think that we should at least experiment with it to make sure are issues we have with it will be fixed in a .1 or so and we'll be

Re: Virtual Memory fragmentation issues

2013-04-08 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
On 4/8/2013 7:46 PM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: In this case, the crash report shows Available Virtual Memory as 303558656, but in fact the largest contiguous block of available VM is 64k. Correct, I had wrong math. The largest block available is about 3MB, and the allocation being requested

Re: Virtual Memory fragmentation issues

2013-04-08 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Benjamin Smedberg benja...@smedbergs.us wrote: 1) early in the memory info, there appears to be a common pattern of a committed block and then 15 free blocks. AIUI, on Windows the smallest block you can ask for with VirtualAlloc is 4 KiB. However, no more than

Re: Virtual Memory fragmentation issues

2013-04-08 Thread Justin Lebar
AIUI, on Windows the smallest block you can ask for with VirtualAlloc is 4 KiB. However, no more than one VirtualAlloc block can exist per 64 KiB chunk. So if you ask for 4 KiB you'll end up wasting the remaining 60 KiB of address space in the 64 KiB chunk. Awesome memory, Nick. MSDN seems

Re: WebAPI team plans

2013-04-08 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On 2013-04-06 11:24 AM, David Bruant wrote: Le 03/04/2013 22:12, Andrew Overholt a écrit : Yesterday a number of people discussed future plans for the WebAPI team. Our discussion resulted in the ideas and comments that are on this wiki page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/PlannedWork

Re: What does BC stand for?

2013-04-08 Thread allencblee
On Thursday, March 21, 2013 10:21:09 AM UTC+8, RyanVM wrote: On 3/14/2013 7:14 PM, allencb...@gmail.com wrote: Any idea what the tentative timeframe of rolling this out? in firefox 23 ? The goal is Firefox 23, yes. Am I right to assume that the XULrunner 23 daily build includes