Posted in DeCOMtamination, dehydra, garburator on December 28th, 2007 2 Comments »
Looks like pork is slowly going to get merged back into oink. This makes me happy as it will result in decreased merging headaches and gives more visibility to my work outside of Mozilla. My elkhound changes are already in! Recently I added support for retaining gnu attributes to elsa and corresponding features dehydra and [...]
Posted in garburator, outparamdel, thrower on December 19th, 2007 7 Comments »
Often there are two ways to write code. One way is to design an API and have code patterns adhere to how the API is supposed to be used. Another way is to rely on language features to accomplish the same thing. Typically API-pattern approaches are chosen because compilers are too immature or just don’t [...]
Posted in garburator on November 2nd, 2007 3 Comments »
A few weeks ago I convinced myself that is possible to rewrite Mozilla to avoid COMPtrs on the stack. Since then I’ve changed my mind a few times and felt like I may not be able to get this rewrite working. However, after three or four false starts, I finally managed to work out a [...]
Posted in DeCOMtamination, dehydra, garburator on October 12th, 2007 13 Comments »
In the Beginning There Was a Void Approximately a year ago, Brendan discussed with me the crazy possibility of rewriting most of the Mozilla code automatically to modernize the codebase. The benefits were huge. Gecko would use the C++ standard library to improve code readability and reducing size, XPCOM would be ripped out of the [...]
