On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Dave Townsend <dtowns...@mozilla.com> wrote: > This plan really worries me. [...] I'm worried that we'll just break the > platform b2g runs on in subtle ways that we might not notice before shipping. > It's pretty concerning to have a fundamental change to how components and > modules are loaded on a new platform where to my knowledge we don't yet have > good automated testing (please please someone prove me wrong on this).
I think we all share your concern; you'll see a fair bit of discussion about this in the bug. But this change gets a huge memory win on a highly-memory-constrained device, and we don't have an alternative which would be ready in time. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798491 On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Dave Townsend <dtowns...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On 10/30/12 12:08, Alex Keybl wrote: >>> >>> We have explored various >>> techniques to lower the overhead of a compartment, but unfortunately >>> those >>> fixes that would help at all are either too risky for or cannot be >>> completed in time for Gecko 18. We have decided instead to consolidate >>> all >>> JSMs and JS components into a single compartment in B2G. >> >> >> >> In case people missed this part specifically, I just want to point out >> that the change in bug 798491 are targeted for FF18 (Aurora). See comment 75 >> for philikon's early risk evaluation. From our read of the bug, although >> this represents major code change, we do not expect major desktop/Android >> regressions, especially with a day or two of bake time on m-c to start. >> >> -Alex > > > This plan really worries me. I agree that it is unlikely we'll see > desktop/android regressions. I'm more worried that we'll just break the > platform b2g runs on in subtle ways that we might not notice before > shipping. It's pretty concerning to have a fundamental change to how > components and modules are loaded on a new platform where to my knowledge we > don't yet have good automated testing (please please someone prove me wrong > on this). > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
