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Cycle collector landed
5 January 2007The previous attempt at landing the XPCOM cycle collector failed due to some unacceptable performance regressions. Yesterday, after tidying up a few of the more obvious offenders, we appear to have accomplished a landing that only hurts Tp2 by 5-15%, depending on platform and noise. I know this sounds like a big number and I [...]
Cycle collector landing
21 November 2006Tonight I’ve submitted a mostly-final version of my XPCOM cycle collector for general consumption on the development CVS trunk. It’s a big patch — 230k — and has been in review for several months. In addition to the patch itself, testing builds have been available for a couple weeks. Alas by sheer number-of-files-touched it is [...]