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eBPF for tracing how Firefox uses page faults to load libraries
Modern browsers are some of the most complicated programs ever written. For example, the main Firefox library on my system is over 130Mbytes. Doing 130MB of IO poorly can be quite a performance hit, even with SSDs! :). Few people seem to understand how memory-mapped IO works. There are no pre-canned tools to observe…
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Systems & PerformanceSoftware Engineering2022
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 2022 | eBPF for tracing how Firefox uses page faults to load libraries by mehal | 107 | 18 |
