2 ms·
Firefox is like 10% Rust, and is millions of lines of code. You cannot say "firefox feels slower now, must be the Rust" without actually showing that it's the R
by steveklabnik 2y ago
Firefox is like 10% Rust, and is millions of lines of code. You cannot say "firefox feels slower now, must be the Rust" without actually showing that it's the Rust code.
Every benchmark of the components individually showed improvements when moving to Rust.
- ladyanita22 2y agoI understand you're part of the Firefox development team?
- steveklabnik 2y agoI am not. I was part of the Rust team. Firefox is an open source project, so none of this is secret. https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/ https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/11/entering-the-quantum-era-how-firefox-got-fast-again-and-where-its-going-to-get-faster/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/11/entering-the-quantum-era-h...