On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 06:55:57PM -0700, Dave Mandelin wrote:
> Following the recent discussion about PGO, I really wanted to understand what
> benefits PGO gives Firefox on Windows, if any--I was skeptical. Rafael (IIRC)
> posted some Talos numbers, but I didn't know how to interpret them. So I
On 10/17/2012 6:55 PM, Dave Mandelin wrote:
Following the recent discussion about PGO, I really wanted to understand what benefits
PGO gives Firefox on Windows, if any--I was skeptical. Rafael (IIRC) posted some Talos
numbers, but I didn't know how to interpret them. So I decided to try a few s
Following the recent discussion about PGO, I really wanted to understand what
benefits PGO gives Firefox on Windows, if any--I was skeptical. Rafael (IIRC)
posted some Talos numbers, but I didn't know how to interpret them. So I
decided to try a few simple experiments to try to falsify the hypot
While I was in the neighborhood of the relevant code, I looked into what
it would take to add a b2g-only option to the try chooser syntax, and
was surprised to discover that it's already possible.
If you use |-p ics_armv7a_gecko| in your try syntax, it will select the
B2G builds. It's combinab
Sample standalone HTTP servers:
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/214853a29174/services/common/modules-testing/aitcserver.js
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/214853a29174/services/common/modules-testing/storageserver.js
Minimal JS files to launch said servers:
https://hg.mo
I'm looking to write a fake server for the ActiveSync protocol, which I
will eventually incorporate into xpcshell tests. httpd.js seems like the
best tool for the job here.
However, since the server is fairly complex, I wanted to be able to use
XHRs in Firefox to talk to the server just to tes
On 2012-10-17 2:31 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
What would be interesting is if we could enable an autohinter in Firefox
and use that in cases when we are sent a font which doesn't contain hints
(is the performance overhead, if any, acceptable?)
I don't have numbers, but I run my Linux desktop with
On Oct 17, 2012 11:20 AM, "Zack Weinberg" wrote:
>
> On 2012-10-17 11:05 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>>
>> AFAICS, the latest stable release is currently 2.4.10; do you know when
>> 2.4.11 is expected?
>
>
> Afraid not; we should probably ask Werner.
It sounds to me that it's not generally true that
On 2012-10-17 11:05 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
AFAICS, the latest stable release is currently 2.4.10; do you know when
2.4.11 is expected?
Afraid not; we should probably ask Werner.
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On 17/10/12 14:17, Zack Weinberg wrote:
On 2012-10-17 4:07 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
Until quite recently the FreeType autohinter did a very bad job on a
surprising number of popular webfonts - rendering letters in the same
word
with inconsi
On 2012-10-17 4:07 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
Until quite recently the FreeType autohinter did a very bad job on a
surprising number of popular webfonts - rendering letters in the same word
with inconsistent perceptual x-height, for instance.
On Oct 12, 2:05 pm, Jan Honza Odvarko wrote:
> One of the Firebug automated tests is using following script to check
> that XHR displayed in the Console panel (and the Net panel) is
> properly finished if aborted:
>
> var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
> request.open("POST", "", true);
> request.
Sorry for the late reply. Had a bit on lately.
> You will need to get a debug build and a backtrace to answer that for
>
> sure, but with OOP plugins a Flash crash would (almost certainly) not
>
> crash XULRunner.
I didn't get round to building a debug version. However after setting the
XRE_C
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Until quite recently the FreeType autohinter did a very bad job on a
> surprising number of popular webfonts - rendering letters in the same word
> with inconsistent perceptual x-height, for instance.
What kind of fonts? Bicameral or other?
On 10/16/12 9:05 PM, Gavin Sharp wrote:> This is excellent -
>
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript_OS.File/OS.File_for_the_main_thread
> is exactly the kind of API I've been wanting for a long time. I know
> it took a lot of work to get there - thank you for your efforts.
>
> A coup
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