Comments on: icegrind – Valgrind Plugin for Optimizing Cold Startup

By: roger

roger — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:27:19 +0000

Now if we could just get its equivalent for java, to speedup startup…

By: Sriraman

Sriraman — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:57:42 +0000

Nice post. I will work on landing the gold patch with those issues resolved asap.

By: skierpage

skierpage — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:01:46 +0000

The most consistently interesting posts on Planet Mozilla! It’s inspiring to see you find so many opportunities to do things better by looking closely at what actually takes place.

Please modify gold and mozilla build scripts to create a FF/TB Omnijar starting on the disk’s second cylinder that the PC’s BIOS unpacks into memory at 0xbeeffeed and then executes.

By: Ian M

Ian M — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:58:12 +0000

Thanks for a fascinating post (as usual

Please push as much of your work as possible upstream to various projects (e.g. GCC).

By: Dave Herman

Dave Herman — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:43:44 +0000

I just have to ask:

How much of what you’ve learned about profiling and optimizing the code loading process with binaries and disk I/O would translate to developing better tools to profile and optimize the code loading process with webapps and network I/O?

Dave

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:26:21 +0000

Reminds me of BootCache:

http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/misc/optimizations/#ONE

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:34:47 +0000

You seem to work so often in unexplored areas of software, it must be quite exciting! I hope all of your discoveries can help future software development.