Firefox OS/Performance

Firefox OS Performance

Mozilla's program for advancing Firefox OS performance.

Engineering Manager	Mike Lee
Engineers	Jon Hylands, Ben Kelly, Hubert Figuière, Kevin Grandon, David Huseby, Mason Chang, Eli Perelman, Geo Mealer (QA)
Product Management	Ravikumar Dandu
Program Management
User Experience	Gordon Brander
Location (Timezones)	United States (PT, CT, & ET), Canada (ET)
Wiki	https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Performance
Calendar (CalDAV)	https://mail.mozilla.com/dav/mozillacalendar@mozilla.com/FxOS%20Performance
Contact	#fxos-perf on irc.mozilla.org, fxos-perf@mozilla.com
Stand-ups	FxOS_Performance Vidyo Room: Tuesdays @ 1pm PT & Fridays @ 11am PT
Triages	FxOS_Performance Vidyo Room: Wednesdays @ 11am PT
Sprint Planning	FxOS_Performance Vidyo Room: 10am PT on last Friday of each sprint.
Meet-Ups/Workweeks	FxOS_Performance Vidyo Room: Taipei: 2014.03.31 - 04.04

Plans

• Roadmap
• Sprints
• Triage
  • Blocking Criteria
• Performance Categories
• Etherpads
  • Automation
  • Stand-ups
  • MemShrink Priorities
  • Perf Test Automation Status
• Taipei Performance
• Tarako

Tools

• Dashboards
  • Datazilla: Instrumented Apps
    • Using Datazilla
  • Eideticker: Automated Camera Measurement
    • Using Eideticker, Measuring Entropy

• Instrumentation
  • Gaia Performance Tests
  • Gaia Test Framework
    • Dialer Perf Tests
    • See <APP_NAME>/test/performance folders within the Gaia Repo for more performance tests.
  • B2G Perf (via Automation Team)
  • FPS

• Power Usage

• Profiling
  • Speed
  • Memory
    • Debugging
    • MemShrink
    • Reporting
    • Stress Testing
  • Mock Data
    • Reference Workloads (via Gaia build targets)
    • B2G Populate (via Automation Team)
  • Valgrind

• Root-Causing Regressions

• Stability
  • Crashes

• Integration
  • Marionette JS Tools
  • Marionette JS Tools ReadMe

• How to Back Out
  • update tree
  • git revert -m1 originalCommitHash. Only need the -m1 if you the original commit was a merge.
  • git push

References

• • Taipei Performance Team

• Firefox OS Architecture
  • Overview
  • Modules
  • Diagrams
  • Gaia
• Articles
  • App Performance Validation
  • A*Team Performance Tools
  • Building B2G Faster with Distcc
  • CSS
    • Blend Modes
    • Efficient CSS
    • will-change property
  • FxOS Performance Tips
  • GPS
  • Jank-free Web
  • JSON
  • Lists
    • Implementing Virtual Lists
    • Virtual List Demo
  • Mozilla Commit Process
  • Perceived Performance
  • RILAnalyzer
  • Steve Souders' Web Performance
  • Tracking Reflows & Event Loops
  • Upstreaming Kernel Changes to Geeksphone