On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Justin Lebar <justin.le...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > This is all great stuff, but as mentioned elsewhere, B2G branched at > > version 18 and so they need improvements that that can land quickly on > > the relevant branches. > I understand that (but should certainly have made it more clear). Maybe I'm underestimating the amount of work required to rebuild enough (whatever "enough" means, in this case) modules in C++, but isn't that a somewhat major undertaking, too? > > Well, to be clear, it would be great if we could land some > improvements for v1.1 (which is based off version 18), but we're > locking the tree down pretty hard already, so I suspect that e.g. a > wifi worker rewrite is off the table for that version. Hopefully v1.1 > is the last b2g version that will be based off b2g18. > > v1.1 is also, I found out last week, targeting a 512mb device, so > memory usage probably isn't as critical there as it will be in future > releases which target 256mb devices. > We might (should, actually) be able to land the lazy-cloning and re-lazification parts without the lazy bytecode. I'm not saying it's a tiny project, but at least we have almost all of the required infrastructure in place, already. Mmh, but backporting it to 18 might be a lot harder. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
