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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
Use Cases
- Use Firefox with incremental garbage collection enabled. When IGC is enabled, dynamic content on the web should have more tolerable pauses (possibly go from noticeable pauses to ones the user cannot notice).
- Disable incremental garbage collection.
Test Cases
- The test cases for this feature can be viewed here.
Important Bugs
Not Tested
- Cycle collector.
Sign off
- Criteria
- All the test cases were executed.
- All the major bugs have been fixed.
- Sign offs
- Firefox 13.0 Aurora - 2012-03-19