Platform/Features/Incremental GC/TestPlan

Incremental Garbage Collection

Feature	Status	Release Target	Dev Lead	QA Lead	Status
Incremental GC	Landed	Firefox 13	Bill McCloskey	Ioana Budnar	Signed off on Aurora

Summary

• Garbage collection time is divided into short increments. Overall, the same amount of time is spent doing garbage colletion, but each individual pause is shorter.

References

• Wiki page

Use Cases

• Use Firefox with incremental garbage collection enabled.
• Disable incremental garbage collection.

Test Cases

• The test cases for this feature can be viewed here.

Important Bugs

• 641025 - Incremental GC
• 734946 - Disable incremental GC for Firefox 13

Not Tested

• Cycle collector.

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Criteria

• All the test cases were executed.
• All the major bugs have been fixed.

Sign offs

• Firefox 13.0 Aurora - 2012-03-19