> In the last week we received ~470000 crash reports, these do not represent all crashes because it's an opt-in system, the real number of crashes will be several times larger.
470k crashes in a single week, and this is under-reported! I bet the number of crashes is far higher. My snap Firefox on Ubuntu would lock-up, forcing me to kill it from the system monitor, and this was never reported as a crash.
Once upon a time I wrote software for safety critical systems in C/C++, where the code was deployed and expected to work for 10 years (or more) and interact with systems not built yet. Our system could lose power at any time (no battery) and we would have at best 1ms warning.
Even if Firefox moves to Rust, it will not resolve these issues. 5% of their crashes could be coming from resource exhaustion, likely mostly RAM - why is this not being checked prior to allocation? 5% of their crashes could be resolved tomorrow if they just checked how much RAM was available prior to trying to allocate it. That accounts for ~23k crashes a week. Madness.
With the RAM shortages and 8GB looking like it will remain the entry laptop norm, we need to start thinking more carefully about how software is developed.
470k crashes in a single week, and this is under-reported! I bet the number of crashes is far higher. My snap Firefox on Ubuntu would lock-up, forcing me to kill it from the system monitor, and this was never reported as a crash.
Once upon a time I wrote software for safety critical systems in C/C++, where the code was deployed and expected to work for 10 years (or more) and interact with systems not built yet. Our system could lose power at any time (no battery) and we would have at best 1ms warning.
Even if Firefox moves to Rust, it will not resolve these issues. 5% of their crashes could be coming from resource exhaustion, likely mostly RAM - why is this not being checked prior to allocation? 5% of their crashes could be resolved tomorrow if they just checked how much RAM was available prior to trying to allocate it. That accounts for ~23k crashes a week. Madness.
With the RAM shortages and 8GB looking like it will remain the entry laptop norm, we need to start thinking more carefully about how software is developed.