0.3 Release

So this is my last contribution to the OSD 600 Course but not my last contribution to my project. With this release I will be slowing down my activity but I hope I find the time to finish what I have started.

0.3 Release Details
My 0.3 Release project release can be found here.

The summary is I have landed a patch that keeps PGO for Thunderbird breaking on Windows. A module in the mozilla-core called lcms breaks when it is not linked into the xul library. The patch basically disables pgo for that module if it is not being linked into the library otherwise pgo is enabled for it.

As I was trying to enable pgo for Thunderbird related modules I discovered that PGO gets enabled for all modules. This was good news until I noticed that only 5 modules were getting optimized out of 74.

As I looked into this it turned out that the folder that most of the profile data was in was being deleted before used to optimize the modules. I created a new bug for this problem.

I have added my proposed patch and using that patch and doing some simple profiling 69 of 74 modules were optimized.

And that is my 0.3 Release.

I have learned about using Make and Python and compiler options for PGO. I still don't understand PGO entirely and don't understand why it does what it does. Example would be when using the option to optimize for size the compile spits out that the module was optimized for speed. I guess at some point I should make an inquiry on the Microsoft forums.

I plan on taking the OSD700 class but am looking at working with Eclipse.