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Jan 27

Better extension performance with Promises

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The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.Donald Knuth This is an unfinished blog post started some two-and-a-half years ago...

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Sep 20

Add-on performance testing via power usage

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We’ve struggled for a long time to programmatically measure the objective performance impact of add-ons on Firefox. While a perfect solution is still far off, we’ve recently started down an interesting new avenue: automatically measuring the impact of add-ons on the computer power consumption...

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