I admire how mozilla is so passionate about what they develop but still, in 2017, firefox needs restart every couple of hours for performance reasons. I kinda of feel like they have the proof of concept working but its never good enough for the wider audience.
HolyJit: A New Hope
81–90 of 219 posts
Re: HolyJit: A New Hope
#82Re: HolyJit: A New Hope
#83Re: HolyJit: A New Hope
#84I admire how mozilla is so passionate about what they develop but still, in 2017, firefox needs restart every couple of hours for performance reasons. I kinda of feel like they have the proof of concept working but its never good enough for the wider audience.
Have you tried the 57 beta?
Re: HolyJit: A New Hope
#85I admire how mozilla is so passionate about what they develop but still, in 2017, firefox needs restart every couple of hours for performance reasons. I kinda of feel like they have the proof of concept working but its never good enough for the wider audience.
In class there are at least 30 out of 40 people using Firefox on Ubuntu with no such issues. On my laptop I use Firefox on Debian with no such issues. Also previously on Windows XP, 7 or 8, both in virtual machines and on hardware, I never had such issues, but that's a while ago so not really applicable anymore.
You might want to submit a bug with your specific hardware to see if anyone can identify the cause, because that's not normal.
Re: HolyJit: A New Hope
#86Can we just drop the JS VM and embed some nicer VM (JVM, DartVM) instead?
I agree this would be better, but backward compatibility constraint makes it impossible. WebAssembly is an attempt to add a nicer VM in addition to JS VM.
I thought one of the points of WebAssembly was to not create a second VM. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Concept...
> With the advent of WebAssembly appearing in browsers, the virtual machine that we talked about earlier will now load and run two types of code — JavaScript AND WebAssembly.
Re: HolyJit: A New Hope
#87No offense, but the blog post is seriously missing a better (or any?) explanation of what's the new JIT all about. At first I even thought my browser loaded only half the page...
It does link to https://github.com/nbp/holyjit which explains pretty much everything there is to explain so far...
That's all well and good, but github is blocked where I work.
Re: HolyJit: A New Hope
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
He/she is right though, just wait when WebAssembly gets more mature. I bet all those plugins will be back.
WebAssembly has no good story for the DOM.
We have canvas and WebGL.
And just because it isn't there today, it doesn't mean it won't be there tomorrow.