Enabling TLS on this blog
Long overdue, I finally enabled TLS on this blog. It went almost like a breeze. I used simp_le to get the certificate from Let’s Encrypt, along Mozilla’s Web Server Configuration generator. SSL Labs...
View ArticleGoing beyond NS_ProcessNextEvent
If you’ve been debugging Gecko, you’ve probably hit the frustration of having the code you’re inspecting being called asynchronously, and your stack trace rooting through NS_ProcessNextEvent, which...
View ArticleSSH through jump hosts, revisited
Close to 7 years ago, I wrote about SSH through jump hosts. Twice. While the method used back then still works, Openssh has grown an new option in version 5.3 that allows it to be simplified a bit, by...
View ArticleRIP Iceweasel, 13 Nov 2006 – 10 Mar 2016
This took longer than it should have, but a page is now officially turned. I uploaded Firefox and Firefox ESR to Debian unstable. They will have to go through the Debian NEW queue because they are new...
View ArticleAnnouncing git-cinnabar 0.3.2
Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper to interact with mercurial repositories. It allows to clone, pull and push from/to mercurial remote repositories, using git. Get it on github. These release notes...
View ArticleUsing git to access mercurial repositories, without mercurial
If you’ve been following this blog, you know I’ve been working on a git remote helper that gives access to mercurial repositories, named git-cinnabar. So far, it has been using libraries from mercurial...
View ArticleAnnouncing git-cinnabar 0.4.0 beta 1
Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper to interact with mercurial repositories. It allows to clone, pull and push from/to mercurial remote repositories, using git. Get it on github. These release notes...
View ArticleAre all integer overflows equal?
Background: I’ve been relearning Rust (more about that in a separate post, some time later), and in doing so, I chose to implement the low-level parts of git (I’ll touch the why in that separate post...
View ArticleAnnouncing git-cinnabar 0.4.0 beta 2
Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper to interact with mercurial repositories. It allows to clone, pull and push from/to mercurial remote repositories, using git. Get it on github. These release notes...
View ArticleAnnouncing git-cinnabar 0.4.0 release candidate
Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper to interact with mercurial repositories. It allows to clone, pull and push from/to mercurial remote repositories, using git. Get it on github. These release notes...
View ArticleFaster git-cinnabar graft of gecko-dev
Cloning Mozilla repositories from scratch with git-cinnabar can be a long process. Grafting them to gecko-dev is an equally long process. The metadata git-cinnabar keeps is such that it can be...
View ArticleAnnouncing git-cinnabar 0.4.0 release candidate 2
Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper to interact with mercurial repositories. It allows to clone, pull and push from/to mercurial remote repositories, using git. Get it on github. These release notes...
View ArticleAnnouncing git-cinnabar 0.4.0
Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper to interact with mercurial repositories. It allows to clone, pull and push from/to mercurial remote repositories, using git. Get it on github. These release notes...
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When the memory allocator works against you
Cloning mozilla-central with git-cinnabar requires a lot of memory. Actually too much memory to fit in a 32-bits address space. I hadn’t optimized for memory use in the first place. For instance,...
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When the memory allocator works against you, part 2
This is a followup to the “When the memory allocator works against you” post from a few days ago. You may want to read that one first if you haven’t, and come back. In case you don’t or didn’t read it,...
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Analyzing git-cinnabar memory use
In previous post, I was looking at the allocations git-cinnabar makes. While I had the data, I figured I’d also look how the memory use correlates with expectations based on repository data, to put...
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Why is the git-cinnabar master branch slower to clone?
Apart from the memory considerations, one thing that the data presented in the “When the memory allocator works against you” post that I haven’t touched in the followup posts is that there is a large...
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Progress on git-cinnabar memory usage
This all started when I figured out that git-cinnabar was using crazy amounts of memory when cloning mozilla-central. That pointed to memory allocation patterns that triggered a suboptimal behavior in...
View Articlegit-cinnabar experimental features
Since version 0.4.0, git-cinnabar has a few hidden experimental features. Two of them are available in 0.4.0, and a third was recently added on the master branch. The basic mechanism to enable...
View ArticleAnnouncing git-cinnabar 0.5.0 beta 1
Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper to interact with mercurial repositories. It allows to clone, pull and push from/to mercurial remote repositories, using git. Get it on github. These release notes...
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