If we do the uplift, I believe the plan is also to hold there until we clear out a bunch of less-critical, but shipping-blocking bugs. So it might be on Aurora for a few releases.
e10s engineer here. There are certainly some performance things to iron out. Right now, we're just trying to make the base browser functions work properly, and then we'll start tackling the performance problems.
Another argument for running in multiple-processes as opposed to multiple-threads is that a crashing thread will bring down the whole browser. A crashing content process, on the other hand, can just "crash" the tab, and…
Mozilla can't serve it's mission, or it's users, by dying valiantly on a hill somewhere.
If we do the uplift, I believe the plan is also to hold there until we clear out a bunch of less-critical, but shipping-blocking bugs. So it might be on Aurora for a few releases.
e10s engineer here. There are certainly some performance things to iron out. Right now, we're just trying to make the base browser functions work properly, and then we'll start tackling the performance problems.
Another argument for running in multiple-processes as opposed to multiple-threads is that a crashing thread will bring down the whole browser. A crashing content process, on the other hand, can just "crash" the tab, and…
Mozilla can't serve it's mission, or it's users, by dying valiantly on a hill somewhere.