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markcerqueira on Sept 23, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox

Why not leave the existing code (SR1) as is and rebuild Session Restore 2 (SR2); keep using SR1 until it has nothing to restore and then use SR2 moving forward.

Yoric on Sept 23, 2016 [–]

That sounds pretty hard to pull off. What's the expected benefit?

Drdrdrq on Sept 24, 2016 | [–]

That's a pretty standard M.O. for server-side software development. But in the case of desktop software such as Firefox I see no gain.

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