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From: jorlow@chromium.org Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:41:28 +0100 Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] strategy for evaluating performance issues related to memory. To: marchywka@hotmail.com CC: webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Mike Marchywka> wrote:
Unless you're actively working on this problem within WebKit, these emails seem out of scope for webkit-dev.
The topic addresses this doesn't it? I would think that outlining a development strategy would be "actively working."
I don't expect to dig into the code right now beyond what I have already done but if I could figure out
what to do I might be able to make more specific contributions later.
If you're not contributing code and you don't have people interested in following your lead, then no I don't think this is the applicable list. I'm not aware of any WebKit contributor that's twiddling their thumbs trying to find something to work on.
Maybe this topic will rise to the top of a contributors priority queue at some point, in which case I could see a discussion being on topic and useful.
I was hardly worried about who does anything as much as what would make sense to do. I have interest, motivation, and multiple copies of the code but not a lot of time to waste of bad approaches. There was a prior discussion about coding conventions that should be applicable even to those contemplating a contribution of just browsing the code, I fail to see how this discussion is less relevant to current and possible future development concerns. If there was some piece of this or a related effort that could be aided by certain code features that would seem to be of interest to everyone and it isn't clear which people would have important thoughts to contribute ( or I would take it some other place). So I take it that now you just have factories and smart pointers and just make stuff and have it allocated wherever without further thought? I guess I could do some profiling my self and empirically find problems and just assume that no one has specific comments on suspects or things they have observed as possible problems.
J
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