Re: [dev-servo] Meeting 2013-11-04: mac builder failure, priorities (C++, layout, parallelism, rustpkg, embedding, graphics)

2013-11-05 Thread Robert O'Callahan
I had a discussion with pcwalton and kmc yesterday about string interning. The concurrent cuckoo hash table is cool but maybe not the right fit for the browser workload for a couple of reasons: a) interning lookups are mostly not on the hottest paths. They will occur during parsing, and that can

Re: [dev-servo] Meeting 2013-11-04: mac builder failure, priorities (C++, layout, parallelism, rustpkg, embedding, graphics)

2013-11-05 Thread Patrick Walton
On 11/5/13 2:11 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote: I had a discussion with pcwalton and kmc yesterday about string interning. The concurrent cuckoo hash table is cool but maybe not the right fit for the browser workload for a couple of reasons: a) interning lookups are mostly not on the hottest paths.