Category: Igalia
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Marks and counters in Sysprof
Last year the Webkit project started to integrate its tracing routines with Sysprof. Since then, the feedback I’ve received about it is that it was a pretty big improvement in the development of the engine! Yay. People started using Sysprof to have insights about the internal states of Webkit, gather data on how long different…
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In celebration of accessibility
Accessibility in the free and open source world is somewhat of a sensitive topic. Given the principles of free software, one would think it would be the best possible place to advocate for accessibility. After all, there’s a collection of ideologically motivated individuals trying to craft desktops to themselves and other fellow humans. And yet,…
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A Sysprof enhancement
I’ve blogged in the past about how WebKit on Linux integrates with Sysprof, and provides a number of marks on various metrics. At the time that was a pretty big leap in WebKit development since it gave use a number of new insights, and enabled various performance optimizations to land. But over time we started…
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Profiling a web engine
One topic that interests me endlessly is profiling. I’ve covered this topic many times in this blog, but not enough to risk sounding like a broken record yet. So here we are again! Not everyone may know this but GNOME has its own browser, Web (a.k.a. Epiphany, or Ephy for the intimates). It’s a fairly…