nice paper on FireFox memory usage reduction

[William Park]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 07:45:52PM -0500, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> On 1/18/2012 6:18 PM, Christopher Browne wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:25 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >> <https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/9/93/LCA2012.pdf>
> > I'd be keen to see similar pressure given to projects like Gnome and
> > KDE which have grand, complex architectures that have sufficiently
> > vaulting edifices that they have plenty of room for similar kinds of
> > abuse of limited system resources.
> 
> There was something the other day on Slashdot about LibreOffice
> developers removing deprecated, unused, or just plain dead code from the
> codebase:
> 
> http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/01/14/008236/code-cleanup-culls-libreoffice-cruft
> http://www.i-programmer.info/news/136-open-source/3607-drive-to-remove-unused-code-in-libreoffice.html
> 
> Maybe I'm too or prematurely optimistic, but a few cycle of development
> that are focused on optimizing instead of just throwing more hardware at
> things would be nice.

There gotta be better way of writing applications.  What happened to
"small tools, doing one things" ideas of Unix.  Like Emacs... no bad
example, like Kernel... no not that one, like like... I give up!
-- 
William
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