Mozilla Performance

Tools

• Codesighs - a tool which analyzes code and data size.
• Tools. For measuring performance. Tip o' the propeller-cap to Daniel Roberts (zuperdee@penguinpowered.com) for the pointers.

Tests

The Tinderbox performance tests are commonly used as a benchmark of Mozilla performance.

Documentation

• Code Footprint Reduction Techniques explains common bad patterns and how to correct them.
• Profiling JuJu. Things you should know about doing profiling. Tips and tricks for some of the tools, and lots of other Good Things To Know.
• Profiling and leak analysis on the Mac.

Presentations

• Footprint Tools. Presentation on footprint tools
• General Performance Tools slides Presentation on general performance tools
• Leak Tools. Presentation on memory leaks detection tools
• Mac Performance Tools Presentation on performance tools that work on Mac

Want to help?

First you could help us consolidate these old tasklists.

• An outdated projects list.
• Tasks. A task list of hot-button items! See the Porkjockeys newsgroup for the latest on performance and runtime footprint. Pigs. Flight. And all that.
• Laundry List. Another grouped listing of all open performance bugs. (Wildly out of date. Needs to be updated!)

Other Related Projects

• (ARCHIVED) Mail-News Performance Statistics. A history of our mail-news performance stats.
• XPApps Performance. The browser performance effort.
• References. A dumping ground for performance-related links and documents.
• Community. netscape.public.mozilla.performance is the Mozilla performance newsgroup, and mozilla-performance@mozilla.org is an e-mail mirror.