Custom FireFox build with garbage collection

[BigPilot]

Hi,

I'm working on a custom FireFox build with garbage collection to see if I
can improve performance and reduce memory consumption. I have a custom build
available if people are willing to test it (at their own risk). I will make
source code available so people have to be able to make a FF build
themselves (which is pretty straightforward if you follow the directions on
the web).

The build I made modifies some of the pointers in the source code of the
\content\html source directory with garbage collected pointers.

I also tried to modify code in the \layout\base directory but that didn't
result in a stable executable (i.e. the program crashed at startup).

Let me know if you are interested in testing. I've only touched a small part
of FF's code so don't expect dramatic performance increases immediately. I'm
more interested in seeing if things keep working the way they are supposed
to.

Cheers, BigPilot

[Justin Dolske]

On 7/18/11 1:09 PM, BigPilot wrote:

> I'm working on a custom FireFox build with garbage collection to see if I
> can improve performance and reduce memory consumption.

Hmm? What exactly are you doing?

You'd get better feedback if you just point us at the source/build
modifications, instead of a random binary.

Justin