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If you've been following #servo lately, you'll see that we're starting a reboot of parallel layout right now (which I'm leading, more or less). It just so happ

If you've been following #servo lately, you'll see that we're starting a reboot of parallel layout right now (which I'm leading, more or less). It just so happens that I'm also juggling a million other things simultaneously. For example, I'm working on power usage improvements on macOS that should help address some of the complaints upthread. Also there's the entirely new GPU font and SVG renderer (which is a novel technique). Also there's making sure WebRender ships. Etc.

tjr225 8y ago
Nice! Looking forward to better power management - I'm a daily user in spite of this.
Eridrus 8y ago
Is any of this work coming to Mobile? I agree with the GP that this is where Firefox has the biggest opening, but it seems like there's very little investment in Firefox on Android.
- pcwalton 8y ago
  I'm not responsible for or in control of product plans, but we are testing and tuning much of the work for mobile, yes.
43920 8y ago
I know it's probably really early to ask this, but do you have a rough estimate of when the power usage improvements will happen? Battery life is the main thing stopping me from using Firefox more, so I'm really looking forward to this being fixed.
- agumonkey 8y ago
  I had a ~power related issue using Quantum. It "killed" my cpu (temp rising by 10s of degrees so fast I didn't have time to throttle before kernel thermal shutdown). I guess it's so parallel and so gpu intensive that my whole system goes into fever. ps: a x201 core i5 520m
  - mort96 8y ago
    What? Your system doesn't handle running at max CPU and GPU usahe even for what I presume is seconds before thermal shutdown? That seems like an extremely serious issue with your system.
    - agumonkey 8y ago
      All I can tell is that ffx quantum is the only program that triggers that behavior. And it's not seconds it's maybe one second. 70-80-90 off.
      - deleted 8y ago
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      - zymhan 8y ago
        Run Prime95 on torture mode and then tell me it's just Firefox. Because what you've said makes no sense.
        agumonkey 8y ago
        I don't care a single second what you think about what I said.
  - DiabloD3 8y ago
    Clean your heatsink out, and also consider replacing the heatsink paste: that CPU is so old, its entirely possible a cheap thermal pad is no longer usable (commonly used on laptops and stock desktop HSFs).
    - agumonkey 8y ago
      Doesn't matter, I burn the cpu with multiple gcc builds and it doesn't rise the same. I had thermal shutdowns it can happen, but not like ffx quantum.
      - 8y ago

tjr225 8y ago

Nice! Looking forward to better power management - I'm a daily user in spite of this.

Eridrus 8y ago

Is any of this work coming to Mobile? I agree with the GP that this is where Firefox has the biggest opening, but it seems like there's very little investment in Firefox on Android.

pcwalton 8y ago
I'm not responsible for or in control of product plans, but we are testing and tuning much of the work for mobile, yes.

43920 8y ago

I know it's probably really early to ask this, but do you have a rough estimate of when the power usage improvements will happen? Battery life is the main thing stopping me from using Firefox more, so I'm really looking forward to this being fixed.

agumonkey 8y ago
I had a ~power related issue using Quantum. It "killed" my cpu (temp rising by 10s of degrees so fast I didn't have time to throttle before kernel thermal shutdown). I guess it's so parallel and so gpu intensive that my whole system goes into fever. ps: a x201 core i5 520m
- mort96 8y ago
  What? Your system doesn't handle running at max CPU and GPU usahe even for what I presume is seconds before thermal shutdown? That seems like an extremely serious issue with your system.
  - agumonkey 8y ago
    All I can tell is that ffx quantum is the only program that triggers that behavior. And it's not seconds it's maybe one second. 70-80-90 off.
    - deleted 8y ago
      [deleted]
    - zymhan 8y ago
      Run Prime95 on torture mode and then tell me it's just Firefox. Because what you've said makes no sense.
      - agumonkey 8y ago
        I don't care a single second what you think about what I said.
- DiabloD3 8y ago
  Clean your heatsink out, and also consider replacing the heatsink paste: that CPU is so old, its entirely possible a cheap thermal pad is no longer usable (commonly used on laptops and stock desktop HSFs).
  - agumonkey 8y ago
    Doesn't matter, I burn the cpu with multiple gcc builds and it doesn't rise the same. I had thermal shutdowns it can happen, but not like ffx quantum.
    - 8y ago