Shipping Oilpan

progers7 · on April 15, 2015

For the curious, Oilpan is a tracing garbage collector inside Chromium. The original design docs are at [1].

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y7_0ni0E_kxvrah-QtnreMlz...

DiabloD3 · on April 16, 2015

Before I saw this comment, I assumed it was some sort of memory leak tracker.

bobajeff · on April 16, 2015

I don't fully understand exactly what Oilpan is but it sounds like it's to combine the DOM and JavaScript engines garbage collector into one thing in order to, simplify the runtime, increase performance and remove some interface issues that browser developers have faced.

markdown · on April 16, 2015

Shipping thingimibobs? Shipping Thingamajikis?

WTF is oilpan, and why should I care?

ketralnis · on April 16, 2015

Since it's on the chromium mailing list, http://lmgtfy.com/?q=oilpan+chromium

markdown · on April 16, 2015

You missed the point.

If you're sharing something newsworthy with an audience of thousands/tens-of-thousands/millions, explain what the thing is.

My snark was directed at the OP in hopes he will write better titles in future.

daurnimator · on April 16, 2015

> My snark was directed at the OP in hopes he will write better titles in future.

HN policy is that the title should match that of the link. Even if the page linked to has a terrible title.

jonah · on April 16, 2015

In practice, a noticeable percentage of titles are edited either before or after posting...