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So you don't know what the performance problems in Firefox are, but you're confident that the solution has to be a short-term fix in the existing C++ codebase.

So you don't know what the performance problems in Firefox are, but you're confident that the solution has to be a short-term fix in the existing C++ codebase. Do you realize why that does not make sense?

slededit 10y ago
I suppose a better question is how did the existing code base get this bad? I work on a product 10 years older than FireFox and we've been able to make do with upgrades in place. Over time large pieces of architecture change. The difference is our customers see improvements over time not large periods of stagnation.
- pcwalton 10y ago
  That is exactly what is happening with Firefox.
  - slededit 10y ago
    From the outside it doesn't look like it. That's all I'm saying - Chrome is pulling way ahead to the point I have to use it on all but my most powerful machines.