FYI: This diff is in the snapshots since Sunday. On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Matthew Via <v...@matthewvia.info> wrote:
> I've had the patch applied for two days now and have not seen any ill > efects. This is a Thinkpad T410 running snapshots. > > Before, youtube was unwatchable. Sound would continue normally while > video would freeze for long stretches, often over 10 seconds. Its not > perfect now, but its very nearly so when not fullscreen. > > It does seem that cpu usage of firefox is also significantly reduced, > and is generally snappier. > > Thank you! > -via > > On 22:46 Fri 22 Jan , Mark Kettenis wrote: > > Firefox makes a lot of concurrent malloc(3) calls. The locking to > > make malloc(3) thread-safe is a bit...suboptimal. This diff makes > > things better by using a mutex instead of spinlock. If you're running > > Firefox you want to try it; it makes video watchable on some machines. > > If you're not running Firefox you want to try it; to make sure it > > doesn't break things. > > > > Enjoy, > > > > Mark >
