ForkServer coming to Firefox on Linux
- Track: Mozilla
- Room: UB5.230
- Day: Sunday
- Start: 14:10
- End: 14:25
- Video only: ub5230
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Firefox evolved over years from a single-process to a multi-process browser and while this brought nice improvements to the processing and latency, creating new processes has a cost both in time and in memory. This talk will introduce the solution that is coming to Linux and has already been enabled by default on Nightly for a few months: ForkServer, a process dedicated to making fork(). We will first go through a quick history of the landscape both in concurrent browsers as well as in previous attempts in Firefox and highlight the general architecture before sharing a few challenges met.
Speakers
LISSY Alexandre |