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November 2009

Compiling WebKitGTK+ on Scratchbox for ARM platform

If we would like to build WebKitGTK+ for ARM platform, Scratchbox could be a good choice. In this post I will show, how we can install and setup Scratchbox to build WebKitGTK+. First, we have to install the Scratchbox and its ARM target. Next, we install some libraries to WebKitGTK+.
Let's see how we can do that.

Boost ARM-JIT engine with Nitro Extreme. Brace for impact.

There was a post about Nitro Extreme some time ago on this site, so it is time to recollect what happened so far. Nitro Extreme is not a branch anyomore, it went to mainline, and replaced the old JavaScript Value (JSValue) representation on 32 bit machines. To be more precise, it happened only on x86.

A new tool to extract meaningful memory consumption values. Valgrind shines again.

Every program allocates memory, regardless of its size. Reducing it is an important task and an eternal struggle. Using advanced memory profiling tools, it is easy to see that the most memory is consumed by ... hash tables, vectors, unicode strings, mmaped memory regions, etc. But is THIS what you are interested in? Isn't it would be better to know how much memory consumed by WebCore, JavaScriptCore, Qt, or by a particular component, like WebCore/css?

Detailed memory consumption of some popular sites. Poor good old malloc, everyone's beast of burden.

It is time to try out my new freya tool. Only some web-sites and a fresh Qt (4.6.0) and QtWebKit (r51481) are needed. The values are peak memory consumptions, which is not necessary the best choice (since the sum of their total value is greater than the peak memory consumption), but at least we can see the memory hungry parts of QtWebKit.