Re: Linux distro readiness for Rust in Gecko

2016-03-20 Thread Chris Peterson
On 3/20/16 3:04 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 2:27 PM, wrote: > On Thursday, 17 March 2016 12:23:32 UTC, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> (rustc originally bootstrapped with OCaml, but >> building the whole history of Rust from the OCaml days to present >> every time Fedora builds

Re: Linux distro readiness for Rust in Gecko

2016-03-20 Thread rgarbas
On Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 3:11:40 PM UTC+1, Nicolas B. Pierron wrote: > On 03/17/2016 10:59 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > My concern is that Linux distributions tend to have a policy that > > binary packages have to be buildable from source packages using the > > tools that are available in the

Re: An analysis of content process memory overhead

2016-03-20 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > > - > Conclusion > - > > The overhead per content process is significant. I can see

Re: Linux distro readiness for Rust in Gecko

2016-03-20 Thread info
On Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 3:11:40 PM UTC+1, Nicolas B. Pierron wrote: > On 03/17/2016 10:59 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > My concern is that Linux distributions tend to have a policy that > > binary packages have to be buildable from source packages using the > > tools that are available in the

Re: Linux distro readiness for Rust in Gecko

2016-03-20 Thread »Q«
In , Gabriele Svelto wrote: > Also keep in mind that by default only Firefox ESR is flagged as > stable on Gentoo. Recent versions of Firefox are always available but > the user needs to explicitly unmask them. Anyone can safely i

Re: Linux distro readiness for Rust in Gecko

2016-03-20 Thread Petr Cerny
Hello, my first post, so let me introduce myself briefly: I've been with SUSE Linux as Mozilla (currently Firefox+NSPR/NSS) maintainer for SLE (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server/Desktop) for some five years. Henri Sivonen wrote: But as a matter of fact, Debian's old stable is not receiving Blink/

Re: An analysis of content process memory overhead

2016-03-20 Thread Till Schneidereit
I filed bug 876173[1] about this a long time ago. Recently, I talked to Gabor, who's started looking into enabling multiple content processes. One other thing we should be able to do is sharing the self-hosting compartment as we do between runtimes within a process. It's not that big, but it's not

Re: Linux distro readiness for Rust in Gecko

2016-03-20 Thread Brian Smith
Henri Sivonen wrote: > An example of this *not* being the case: I expect to have to import > https://github.com/gz/rust-cpuid into Gecko in order to cater to the > Mozilla-side policy sadness of having to support Windows XP users > whose computers don't have SSE2. With my Rust programmer hat on

Re: A lot of problems with Firefox Sync...

2016-03-20 Thread Gijs Kruitbosch
On 18/03/2016 11:47, Tobias B. Besemer wrote: If I use my main profile in Aurora, it updates FF immediately to the Nightly Version because the update channel is saved in the profile! Is this really necessary/right this way? I mean: Why not save the update channel in the FF installation (folder

Re: Linux distro readiness for Rust in Gecko

2016-03-20 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 05:23:21PM +0200, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> You say you don't see #5 happening. Do you see #4 happening? If not, >> what do you see happening? > > At this point, I'm wondering if the best outcome wouldn't be 6) Distros > d