Monthly Archives: April 2012

Eideticker with less eideticker

Posted on April 24, 2012 by William Lachance

[ For more information on the Eideticker software I'm referring to, see this entry ] tl;dr: You can now run the standard eideticker benchmarks easily on any Android phone without any kind of specialized hardware. So Eideticker is pretty great … Continue reading →

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GoFaster dashboard back online

Posted on April 19, 2012 by William Lachance

Build times for mozilla-central are a major factor in developer productivity. Faster build times mean more people using try (reducing breakage) and more fine-grained regression ranges (reducing the impact of breakages). As a side benefit, it allows us to avoid … Continue reading →

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Yet more adventures in mobile performance analysis

Posted on April 5, 2012 by William Lachance

[ For more information on the Eideticker software I'm referring to, see this entry ] Participated in an interesting meeting on checkerboarding in Firefox for Android yesterday. As a reminder, checkerboarding refers to the amount of time you spend waiting … Continue reading →

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An even better way of taking screenshots on Android

Posted on April 3, 2012 by William Lachance

Just thought I’d mention this because I found it handy. A while back AaronMT wrote up some clever instructions on taking Android screenshots by dumping the contents of ‘/dev/fb0′ and running ffmpeg on the results. This is useful, but you … Continue reading →

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