Re:3.7X speedup from removing a call to sleep
by osivertsson on Sunday September 02, 2012 @07:48AM
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My guess from spending only a few days with the WebKit source is that it will not effect page rendering at all.
Possibly not desktop performance at all since I believe GC is done in a separate thread and (from my understanding) you never wait on it, unless you are really memory constrained.
Could make a difference on IOS where I believe you actually don't have this GC memory scavenger thread.
Anyway, the source is quite readable and everyone working with WebKit on one level or another could benefit from taking a look. At the very least it gives you a feeling for the tremendous effort from a huge number of people that the WebKit project really is.
Possibly not desktop performance at all since I believe GC is done in a separate thread and (from my understanding) you never wait on it, unless you are really memory constrained.
Could make a difference on IOS where I believe you actually don't have this GC memory scavenger thread.
Anyway, the source is quite readable and everyone working with WebKit on one level or another could benefit from taking a look. At the very least it gives you a feeling for the tremendous effort from a huge number of people that the WebKit project really is.