Friday, August 21st, 2009
Another week in Firefox startup.
Good news is, joelr joined the platform team and is kicking startup in the shins. He’s on the ball, I hope he doesn’t mind my saying.
My OS X-specific XPT-linking patch from last time landed. Nightly trunk (Minefield) users on OS X, I’d like to hear from you if you [...]
Friday, August 14th, 2009
Some of us have recently been working on improving Firefox’s startup performance. I’m focusing on cold startup, which is heavily I/O bound. You can read about it in my chronicles of startup, which contain notes and thoughts, day-to-day travails, and some scripts for analysis that anybody can run to reproduce my results.
Yesterday I [...]
