Hi, I've been doing some heap allocation profiling and found that during basic usage NSS accounts for 1/3 of all of Firefox's cumulative (*not* live) heap allocations. We're talking gigabytes of allocations in short browsing sessions. That is *insane*.
I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1095272 about this. I've written several patches that fix problems, one of which has r+ and is awaiting checkin; check the dependent bugs. This is making Ryan Sleevi is nervous and he wanted me to post something here about my plans. So here they are: I want to reduce unnecessary allocations. I want to do so in a very non-intrusive fashion: I'm aware that NSS is security-sensitive code, and TBH it's not that enjoyable to read or modify. I will plug away at this as long as there is low-hanging fruit to be found, which may not be that much longer. Nick -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
