Followup: modularity, WebExtensions, and going faster

[David Teller]

I have a technical question that may inform a few things.

We currently rely a lot upon lazy loading of modules/features/... to
speed up startup and limit memory usage of features that are not used.
Is this compatible with the WebExtensions model?

Cheers,
 David

On 06/10/16 17:08, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
> I spent a week writing a thing about modularity, webextensions, and
> going faster. I think it's important for us to decide the module
> structure of our code especially as we start shipping independent
> modules/going faster. And I believe that having better module structure,
> boundaries, and documentation is critical to our teams being more agile
> and also attracting contributors to the project.
> 
> http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2016-09-03/modularity-and-webextensions/
> 
> I personally think that we should double down on WebExtensions as a
> model and start using that for large parts of Firefox. But Andy McKay
> and Rob Helper had some good counter-thoughts and I've asked them to
> post here to elaborate.
> 
> In the post I asked everyone to send followups to firefox-dev, so I
> wanted to start a thread here to collect responses. Over the next months
> I'd like this to turn into a firm decision about how we're going to
> build system addons; but I'd like to start by seeing what feedback
> people have and even whether I've framed the problem correctly.
> 
> --BDS
> 
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