Re: Removing Jemalloc 4

2017-05-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:28:02AM -0700, Steve Fink wrote: > But I'm curious if you know anything about the intended future directions of > jemalloc, if there are any, and whether they align with anything we need. As Nick mentions, Jason Evans, the main developer on jemalloc (guess where "je" com

Re: Removing Jemalloc 4

2017-05-16 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 4:28 AM, Steve Fink wrote: > > But I'm curious if you know anything about the intended future directions > of jemalloc, if there are any, and whether they align with anything we need. As far as I know the short answer is "whatever Facebook needs", because jemalloc's auth

Re: Quantum Flow Engineering Newsletter #9

2017-05-16 Thread Cameron Kaiser
On 5/11/17 11:27 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: Jan de Mooij optimized Array.prototype.shit to have O(1) rather than O(n) behavior . Wow. That's an appropriately named function. ;) Cameron Kaiser tier-3 port, tier-1 heart __

Re: Ambient Light Sensor API

2017-05-16 Thread Andrew Overholt
Did we make a decision here? If not, what are we missing to make one? On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote: > > Rather, the policy is > > that we will move to requiring all new features to have HTTPS [0]. > > We should

Re: Removing Jemalloc 4

2017-05-16 Thread Steve Fink
But 4 is bigger than 3, and much bigger than 0.9, so it must be way better, right? ;-) For the record, I have no reason to object to this plan, and conceptually it seems like allocators always have to tune for something. If mozjemalloc is at this time tuned to our workload, it seems very plau

Nightly updates disabled in light of 1364878

2017-05-16 Thread Mihai Tabara
We've disabled updates in light of events occurring in bug 1364878. We can ultimately point users to last good build but until we decide so, updates are better off. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/lis

Re: Removing Jemalloc 4

2017-05-16 Thread Tom Ritter
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 1:48 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 01:33:13AM -0500, Tom Ritter wrote: >> My interest in jemalloc3/4 has always been with taking advantage of >> it's partitioning capabilities to segment things like javascript >> arrays for increased security against heap

Re: Have you run 'mach bootstrap' lately?

2017-05-16 Thread Panos Astithas
I had filed bug 1257478 specifically for tackling the git configuration issue and when this larger plan was brought up, my inclination to work on it diminished :) If this broader work is not prioritized, could we split it into smaller bugs so that it's manageable in weekend-sized chunks? I realize