Featherweight Musings

I'm a research engineer at Mozilla working on the Rust compiler. I have history with Firefox layout and graphics, and programming language theory and type systems (mostly of the OO, Featherweight flavour, thus the title of the blog). http://www.ncameron.org @nick_r_cameron

Saturday, April 13, 2013

The layers refactoring has landed!

I'm happy to report that the layers refactoring has landed on Mozilla central and is now in Nightly. We have already fixed a bunch of b...

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Layers refactoring update

We missed our target landing date of 18th March. But, other than being a few weeks late, things are progressing nicely, in fact we are near...

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Firefox on Raspberry Pi

Some time ago I acquired a Raspberry Pi. These little computers are awesome, it is amazing that a full blown computer can be had in a tiny ...

Friday, March 22, 2013

Finding instructions generated from JS

This is a bit of a beginner's tip for hacking on the JS engine (because I have been hacking a tiny bit on the JS engine (specifically t...

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Stupid British politicians and their stupid education policies

Urgh: On Thursday Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector of England's schools, waded into the row, ordering the academics to get ...

Saturday, March 16, 2013

How I learnt to stop worrying and love open source

I've always been a fan of open source, basically because who doesn't like free stuff? But I've never really seen the greatness ...

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

OMTC Questions

mayankleoboy1 asked some questions in the comments of another blog post and I figured the answers might be of interest to a wider audience,...

Thursday, February 07, 2013

Skia canvas on Windows XP

Using Skia as the rendering backend for canvas has been an option for a while now. Skia is now the default for Windows XP users. That will ...

Tuesday, February 05, 2013

A fun bug

(Actually this is a two for one kind of a deal) I've spent the last two days finding two tricky bugs in my port of tiled Thebes layers ...

Monday, February 04, 2013

Throttling off main thread animations

For the last few months I have been working mostly on throttling off main thread animations (OMTA), in between a little of the layers refac...

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