{"id":3162,"date":"2017-05-30T10:35:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T23:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2017-05-30T11:28:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T00:28:04","slug":"memshrink-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/2017\/05\/30\/memshrink-status\/","title":{"rendered":"MemShrink status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Performance\/MemShrink\">MemShrink<\/a> project started almost six years ago. It successfully reduced Firefox&#8217;s memory consumption to the point where Firefox is now widely (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erahm.org\/2017\/05\/15\/firefox-memory-usage-with-multiple-content-processes\/\">accurately<\/a>) seen as the least memory-hungry browser.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the big improvements were made in the first two or three years of the MemShrink project, and it doesn&#8217;t get much publicity any more, but it is still ticking along quietly: meetings occur, regressions are tracked, measurements are made, and so on. Some time ago I passed leadership of it to the capable hands of Eric Rahm, who has just written a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erahm.org\/2017\/05\/29\/memshrinks-6th-birthday\/\">status update<\/a> that is worth reading.<\/p>\n<p>Eric also wrote recently about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erahm.org\/2017\/05\/25\/are-we-slim-yet-is-dead-all-hail-are-we-slim-yet\/\">reincarnation of areweslimyet.com<\/a>. He maintained that site for several years, which was a thankless but important task, but he won&#8217;t need to any more because its functionality has been folded into Mozilla&#8217;s main performance monitoring tools. Thank you, Eric!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla&#8217;s MemShrink project started almost six years ago. It successfully reduced Firefox&#8217;s memory consumption to the point where Firefox is now widely (and accurately) seen as the least memory-hungry browser. Most of the big improvements were made in the first two or three years of the MemShrink project, and it doesn&#8217;t get much publicity any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4546],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}