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Shipping Oilpan
- progers7 12y agoFor the curious, Oilpan is a tracing garbage collector inside Chromium. The original design docs are at [1]. [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y7_0ni0E_kxvrah-QtnreMlzCDKN3QP4BN1Aw7eSLfY/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y7_0ni0E_kxvrah-QtnreMlz...
- DiabloD3 12y agoBefore I saw this comment, I assumed it was some sort of memory leak tracker.
- markdown 12y agoShipping thingimibobs? Shipping Thingamajikis? WTF is oilpan, and why should I care?
- ketralnis 12y agoSince it's on the chromium mailing list, http://lmgtfy.com/?q=oilpan+chromium http://lmgtfy.com/?q=oilpan+chromium
- markdown 12y agoYou missed the point. If you're sharing something newsworthy with an audience of thousands/tens-of-thousands/millions, explain what the thing is. My snark was directed at the OP in hopes he will write better titles in future.
- daurnimator 12y ago> My snark was directed at the OP in hopes he will write better titles in future. HN policy is that the title should match that of the link. Even if the page linked to has a terrible title.
- jonah 12y agoIn practice, a noticeable percentage of titles are edited either before or after posting...
- bobajeff 12y agoI don't fully understand exactly what Oilpan is but it sounds like it's to combine the DOM and JavaScript engines garbage collector into one thing in order to, simplify the runtime, increase performance and remove some interface issues that browser developers have faced.