Is #1 something we can backport to b2g-2.0? - Kyle
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Nathan Froyd <froy...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Two changes to how NSS is built for Firefox's purposes have landed recently: > > 1. Bug 1018375 changed our build process on Android/B2G such that the > libnss3.so that we build there now has proper symbol exports applied to it. > This change enables the linker to discard any functions and/or data that > aren't used by the exported API from the final libnss3.so. Initial size > reduction results were very encouraging; about ~10% reduction in the on-disk > size, ~18% reduction of the uncompressed in-memory size. > > 2. Bug 1025998 changed our NSS build such that we now maintain a custom list > of the symbols required to build Firefox and its subset of NSS. This list is > only used for some platforms; for all others, the normal NSS-provided list of > exported symbols is used. If you are using new symbols from NSS, either from > C++ or through ctypes, you need to ensure that the symbols you wish to use > are present in security/build/nss.def. (They also need to be present in > NSS's list, of course, or you'll break the build.) > > The intent of the second change is to eventually cut down on the size of the > NSS API surface that we ship in Firefox, thus reducing the size of the NSS > libraries that we ship as well. The tracking bug for this effort is bug > 611781. > > -Nathan > _______________________________________________ > 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
