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I am not a specialist on that stuff, but I note the "will". If they have launched and noticed actual improvements, I'll be interested.

• ssheth 15y ago
  nnethercote on the other hand is the "specialist" as he is in charge of the MemShrink project itself... I would trust him on this stuff.
  • Tichy 15y ago
    OK, but the developers of Mozilla are specialists, too. Why not trust them? Or is nnethercote part of the Mozilla dev team? MemShrink will hopefully just be merged into the core?
    • int3 15y ago
      He's part of the Mozilla dev team. Memshrink isn't a branch that's waiting to get merged, but an ongoing program to reduce overall memory usage.
    • nnethercote 15y ago
      I'm a Mozilla employee and started MemShrink. I also write about it regularly: http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/category/memshrink/ http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/category/memshrink/. MemShrink has been running since June 2011 and there have been many improvements in Firefox's memory consumption since then; these have shown up in Firefox 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11.