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I am highly amused.
Update: One of my friends suggests we send back a cake that reads “Congratulations on getting tabs! Love, 2001″.
Update 2: Yes, I agree that it would be mean to do so :-) And just for the record: Thanks, IE team!
This week I’ve been working on putting together a small document about the performance of places (versus the older mork backend) , and taking a stab at collecting some data as well.
So far the document looks like this. The numbers I got for pageload are from mozilla/tools/performance, but with a different page set (which I can’t give out due to copyright restrictions).
The tests look pretty promising so far. The trend appears to be: places is a little slower when there’s none or very little history data, but is faster and faster the more history there is. And this makes intuitive sense to me, after all we’re using an indexed database which is optimized for these kinds of things.
Still, we have a lot of work ahead of us to pin down all the problem areas, and keep them under control. This is just the beginning.
So, I got a mozilla.com blog. Whee! Now I just need to make myself blog often. I do think it will help me to write about what I do, and if I’m lucky I might interest someone else in it too. Extra help is always welcome ;)
I’ve been advised to introduce myself by explaining my irc nick, “v_thunder”… so, here goes:
I grew up in Valencia, Venezuela, but came to college in the US. I was a little nervous about meeting my roommate, because of cultural differences, etc. On move-in day, only a couple of hours after meeting each other, a girl form the same dorm comes in the room to introduce herself… Randy (my roommate) said:
“This is Daniel, but the ladies call him the Venezuelan Thunder.”
And so, I decided he was allright :)
There. Now that that is out of the way, I can actually start blogging about FF.