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Firefox: It's not memory leaks, but fragmentation
- gibsonf1 19y agoI'm very happy to hear someone is working on this.
- rms 19y agoGreat, I hope this works!
- ingenium 19y agoIs it not installing for anyone else?
- DanielBMarkham 19y agoThere are some open-source heap managers out there. It might be interesting to replace malloc with one of those and see if they don't do a better job of keeping the heap defragmented. Quite honestly, its a problem that's been done before. I sure hope they don't go reinventing the wheel.
- paul 19y agoIt would be interesting to see the results using Google's TCMalloc. http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.html http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.html
- jsmcgd 19y agoShit. For about a second and a half I honestly thought I was color-blind when I was looking for the green squares and I couldn't see them right away. Genuinely scared me. Obviously time for bed.
- jey 19y agoJust swap out the GC implementation for a moving GC! Oh, wait, ... there is no GC.