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MemShrink is a project that aims to reduce Firefox's memory consumption. There are three potential benefits:
# Speed: . less Less cache pressure, and less paging. The latter is crucial, as it can destroy performanceand fewer/smaller GC and CC pauses.# Stability: . fewer OOMs, whether Fewer aborts/crashes due to address space physical or virtual memory exhaustion or otherwise. This results in fewer crashes (due to mishandling of OOM) or abortsThe latter is mostly a problem on 32-bit Windows builds, the former is mostly a problem on mobile.# Perception: Reputation. fewer Fewer people will complain about Firefox being a memory hog, and fewer people will complain that Mozilla ignores memory usage.
These factors are doubly important for Firefox Mobile.
There's also a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640791 tracking bug] for bugs relating to profiling, tools and infrastructure. (These bugs overlap several of the above lists.)
== Current Infrastructure ==
In comparison, for AWSY there is no good and/or standard benchmark suite; metrics are less clear and/or harder to measure; the memory profiling tools aren't as good; but most importantly, there's no well-defined goal w.r.t. any benchmarks.
