Monthly Archives: August 2011

Running the ‘Mem Buster’ endurance test

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Dave

I blogged a few weeks ago about how I was able to demonstrate improvements to the memory usage of Firefox using endurance tests. The test I was using was inspired by Stuart Parmenter’s Mem Buster test, and it has now … Continue reading →

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Goodbye micro-iterations. Hello entities

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Dave

Last month I blogged about the addition of micro-iterations in endurance tests. I was never 100% happy with the name for these, and although ‘micro-iteration’ is a good description of what’s happening (it’s a loop within a loop) it’s difficult … Continue reading →

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