Performance/Status Meetings/2008-January-30
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Gecko 1.9 Performance and Leaks Meeting Details
- Wednesdays - Firefox 3 - 10:00am Pacific, 1:00pm Eastern
- Script Conference Room, Building S, Mountain View
- 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x91 Conf# 217 (US/INTL)
- 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 217 (US)
- irc.mozilla.org #perf for backchannel
Leaks
- Still a few leaks left with popular extensions, but haven't triaged remaining bugs yet.
- Peterv checked in fix to cycle collector random crashes. bug 407034
- We're keeping closed windows alive too long after they are closed
- bug 413447: nsXBLDocumentInfo can keep closed global window alive seem to be one source
- bug 394514 and bug 387491: traversal issues related to XUL template code
- bug 416939 Quick and dirty hack for now
- bug 353851: window.opener
- bug 416856: download status listener [Need to find a generic solution!]
- tooltip listeners?
- Developed plan for doing leak testing as part of review process on AMO
Action Items
- AI:sicking Look into enabling trace-refcount, without the tracing part in nightlies.
- AI:sicking Test leaked handles on windows manually using purify.
- AI:sayrer Run leak buster while looking for trace-malloc leaks. [didn't get this done--sayrer]
Performance
- Old tinderbox testing machines (non-talos) going away -- bug 413695.
- Replacing machines with same pageset but running in Talos
- JPEG/image speedups
- FIXED: bug 411379: JPEG color conversion MMX/SSE2
- FIXED: bug 411718: avoid buffer copy on JPEG decode
- mac: overall image rendering perf bug 414685, bug 412396 fixed by 414685.
- Perf Bugs for FF3:
- perf-only: http://tinyurl.com/396fxa
- perf,footprint,mlk: http://tinyurl.com/yub492
- Txul platform differences according to mac mini machines
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mac: slowest on 1.8, slower still on 1.9 (30% regression)Looks even or better than branch - windows: fastest on 1.8, now in second place (30% regression) -- improving, still slower
- linux: middle on 1.8, now fastest on 1.9 (30% improvement)
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- Ts improvements
- Ts analysis: bug 406810
- bug 311566 - nsCSSScanner::GatherIdent does lots of string appending
- bug 412796 - Optimize fastload system (mmap fileIO, endianness, packed structs)
- Checked in: bug 411579 - Optimize read file buffer sizes for faster startup times
- Profile Guided Optimization
- bug 361343 - Win32 turn-on; bug 410994 - PGO Spidermonkey
- TODO: Figure out Linux (sayrer)
- TODO: Fix win32 breakage (cairo; possibly fixed with cairo patch?)
- Other
- bug 353962 -- JS spinlocks vs. full locks (Crashes in Fx2)
- On radar (unowned stuff that people have mentioned have mentioned we should look at at some point)
- Theme optimization
- roc's scrollbar issues
- startup performance (fastload perf, loading libXUL and other files, etc.) (unowned)
- more work to speed up onSecurityChange, but further work will require SSL work and reducing the number of notifications
- XPConnect accessor speed (bug 412531) (request for priority+owner by dietrich)
Action Items
- make faster
Fragmentation
- bug 407459 -- Hook up jemalloc to our build
- ported to windows, mac and linux. integrated to build system on mac and linux. windows work continuing. Hope to have numbers by end of the week.
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bug 403830 -- Content arena-
bug 408720 -- Fallout -
bug 414894 We're going to back it out. - New arenas
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- Other bugs (should have perf and footprint keywords)
better but doing some additional work on]
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bug 407442 -- nsEventListenerManager allocates a lot [patch] -
bug 408113 -- JS reallocate context->stackPool arenas way too often [patch] -
bug 408301 -- XPConnect wrappers w/o XPConnect proto don't share JS scopes with their protos. [patch] -
bug 410250 -- nsID/nsJSID stupid mallocs [patch] -
bug 410357 -- use nsAutoTArray for nsCSSDeclaration::mOrder [patch] - bug 403354 -- Get rid of nsCStringArray ParseString usage [significantly
- bug 408921 -- Arenas size+header are too big for size classification [in progress]
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Action Items
- fix things