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October 2009

The effect of TCmalloc in the QtWebKit port - stage 1: Performance

Much time has passed since we started to work on the custom allocation framework with Paul Pedriana. The core of the solution (FastAllocBase class, bug #20422) was landed into the trunk half year ago.

Building QtWebKit on Windows

When I tried to build QtWebKit on Windows the first time, I realized it was a more complex task than on Linux. I experimented a lot to make building, testing and WebKit scripts work correctly. I decided that I would fix imperfect scripts and write a blogpost about this topic to relieve WebKit developers sufferings.

The effect of TCmalloc in the QtWebKit port - stage 2: Memory consumption

As I mentioned, there is a reverse of a medal, so now let's see how enabling TCmalloc on the QtWebKit port's JavaScriptCore engine effects memory consumption.