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Incremental GC now in Firefox 16
- dwoldrich 14y agoI see announcements like this and I get excited, finally some real change is coming to Firefox. But when I rush out, breathlessly get the latest Aurora update, and test it out on my site I see the same memory usage with my app ~200-400MB used, same occasionally-jerky javascript performance, etc. My untrained eye cannot see any improvement, but I still see the 200-400MB used where Chrome uses only 60-80MB. Maybe the frame rate is a tad smoother in this build? I dunno. Maybe it's the object model FF uses and the memory use is never going to change. My app should NOT take that much memory to run... I feel the urge to blame myself. Maybe if I had time, I could refactor my code and use Web Workers to fork off parts of my process that aren't touching the DOM. Maybe THAT would make my mozzie run like Chrome? I just wish there were a magic tweak I could do to my app - that one line of code where I went astray - to unleash it on FF, but there's no silver bullet. I think the limitations I see every day in FF are architectural.
- newman314 14y agoTry about:memory for FF14 vs. FF15. You should see a big difference. I find that overall, mem usage has gone down for me and initial load is a lot faster.