Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login
Firefox: It's not memory leaks, but fragmentation (pavlov.net)
22 points by nickb on Nov 12, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments



It would be interesting to see the results using Google's TCMalloc. http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.html


Shit. 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.


Just swap out the GC implementation for a moving GC! Oh, wait, ... there is no GC.


I'm very happy to hear someone is working on this.


Great, I hope this works!


Is it not installing for anyone else?


There 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.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: