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by AshleysBrain 5382 days ago
Great! Love the new canvas renderer. Anyone know when they're planning to add generational GC or other improvements to the GC? It's making some HTML5 games choppy as far as I can tell.
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gcp 5381 days ago
Smooth animation would require shorter GC pauses, i.e. incremental GC.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Features/Incremental_GC

The implementation seems to be in active progress, which means it's going to take at least a few more versions to make it to stable.

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azakai 5381 days ago
Incremental GC is mostly done, so it might make it to trunk soon (so maybe in FF10 - 4 months from now). Generational GC and other improvements are also in the works but will take longer.
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