mozilla.org Status Update #222 (February 2, 2004)Tuesday February 3rd, 2004The mozilla.org Status Update #222 (February 2, 2004) is now online. It includes news on checkin requirements, Bugzilla, unsent messages, cookies, strings, Camino and more. djst: "The reason for the delay has not been related to code issues. More on that after the 0.8 release. Stay tuned." (Posted: Sat 31st Jan 2004 6:36am Last edited by djst on Mon 2nd Feb 2004 4:20pm; edited 3 times in total) How mysterious... Can someone tell us what the new strings implementation will bring to our favorite apps? > Can someone tell us what the new strings implementation will bring to our favorite apps? According to the numbers in the bug, it makes the codesize about 3-5% smaller (on linux and when averaged over all modules). In practical terms, about 500k smaller download, about 900kB smaller disk footprint for SeaMonkey. About 1 meg smaller memory footprint when running for SeaMonkey; probably a bit less for the more stripped-down apps. The wins on Windows are not as big; probably only about 300kB runtime reduction instead of the 900kB. With smaller codesize, naturally, come perf wins -- instruction caches handle smaller code better. ;) Are the changes to the string implementation going to be included version 1.7 of mozilla? |