Posted in Uncategorized on October 24th, 2007 8 Comments »
I’m having a very painful time rewriting Mozilla source code to switch it to garbage collection. So I took a little break to think about Myk’s JavaScript rewriting idea.Then I found excellent info on parsing JS with SpiderMonkey. The downside to SpiderMonkey is that it is in C and thus hard to reuse, the upside [...]
Posted in DeCOMtamination, dehydra, garburator on October 12th, 2007 13 Comments »
In the Beginning There Was a Void Approximately a year ago, Brendan discussed with me the crazy possibility of rewriting most of the Mozilla code automatically to modernize the codebase. The benefits were huge. Gecko would use the C++ standard library to improve code readability and reducing size, XPCOM would be ripped out of the [...]
Posted in prbool on October 4th, 2007 2 Comments »
Prcheck The trouble with prcheck and the automated prbool validation is that one can’t attach the giant patch it produces to bugzilla and expect it to get committed. So I am spending this week combing through prcheck output and patch-bombing bugzilla with per-module patches. I find going through the errors manually to be a lot [...]
