Posted in performance, snappy on December 20th, 2011 1 Comment »
Team Perf and a significant number of other Mozillians will be attending FOSDEM this year. My team will be giving talks on android linkers, IO, toolchain stuff, other TBD stuff. This will be my first FOSDEM, I’m really excited about it. There are a lot of European open sourcers to meet that don’t make it [...]
Posted in performance, startup on April 19th, 2010 17 Comments »
Last week I learned about how Windows handles page faults backed by files (specifically xul.dll). I already knew that Linux was suboptimal in this area, perhaps the clever people at Redmond did better. Shaver pointed me at xperf, which is sort of like the new Linux perf tools. Xperf rocks in that it can capture [...]
Posted in fennec, performance on June 26th, 2009 3 Comments »
Working on Fennec performance N810 has been very educational. I have been learning more and more about performance profiling on crappy platforms. I define a platform as crap if it has poor development tools, limited OS or other significant limitations. Linux is a crappy platform in this case because it’s running on ARM where oprofile [...]
