Re: [dev-servo] meeting notes (COW DOM)

2014-07-08 Thread Andrew McCreight
- Original Message - Not to derail this further with a defense of the CC, but... > CC is still a performance and memory and safety problem. At this point, I think the GC is a bigger performance problem. ;) Ok, so it is doing much more stuff than the CC... > Yeah, I shouldn't have men

Re: [dev-servo] Meeting notes (Q3)

2014-07-08 Thread Jack Moffitt
> What devices need to render full-fidelity web pages and can't afford > that price? The current devices people were interested in targeting were 64MB and did not need full-fidelity web. They were actively pushing to reduce the HW requirement to 32MB. I cannot defend these requirements, but those

Re: [dev-servo] meeting notes (UTF8)

2014-07-08 Thread Luke Wagner
> > Are UTF8-backed (as opposed to Latin1-backed) JS strings with random access > > going to be a real possibility in SpiderMonkey? It’s obviously possible to > > make random access work with an appropriate indexing data structure, but > > popular JS benchmarks are pretty sensitive to string perfor

Re: [dev-servo] Meeting notes (Q3)

2014-07-08 Thread Gervase Markham
On 08/07/14 02:53, Jack Moffitt wrote: > this was about a much lower memory device. It's not clear it's even > possible, but the question was whether we could ever fit in 32MB. > There is significant interest internally and externally in low memory > deployment. How much, in volume, does 128MB of