Snappy May 3rd Notes

General discussion

• switch to 2 week interval
• Snappy Tabstrip discussion on dev.platform
• Felipe's lightning talk on finding and fixing memory leaks in Firefox

http://felipe.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/using-aboutcc/

• 5-7second IGC times
• OMTC sync GFX meeting monday 4pm
• GFX deceleration is back
  • (part 1) azure content in two weeks
  • naive clip-surface cache: couple days
  • css gradient stuff: tbd by jet
  • borders: hard,
  • mac is a separate issue
  • Bas should profile the new theme
  • look into running different css for gfx accel case
  • schedule: frank, Bas, shorlander, me for a meeting to reduce nearterm theme overhead
• schedule: khuey, jetpack discussion

Projects

Non-destructive chromehang

• Symbolication server privacy review https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy/Reviews/SnappySymbolicServer , should be public next week.

Peptest

Result from last week

• bug 749275
  • fixed some bugs found after experimenting with repeating each test X times in a row versus repeating the whole test suite X times in a row (whole testsuite gives more consistent results, so we're going with that)
  • merge into m-c waiting on review
• bug 747095 - deployed changes to peptest graphs to average results for given revision

Todo this week

• bug 749275 should be reviewed and pushed soon
• bug 749277 will enable 10 iterations for each push

GC pause reduction - billm

Results from the past week

• bug 750424 - fixed leak that was blocking IGC being turned on
• bug 750416 - incremental GC bugfixing

CC pause reduction - smaug, mccr8 (meta bug: 698919)

Results from the past week

• bug 747675 (relanded)
• lmandel to follow up with khuey about leaks for old jetpack versions due to his recent change

Firefox Shutdown - rafael

Results from the past week

• 742455 is a regression from a previous fix. Debbuging it found the refcounting problem

 that causes the crash, but we have no idea how we get to that situation.

• Good news is that looking at getting asan working on OS X to debug 742455 I found an

interesting symbol overiding library that I am now using on bug 732173

Todo this week

• Send 732173 for code review