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This is great to see, but I expect that once we have memory instrumentation implemented in Servo that we won't particularly like the initial results. :) I'm guessing that the language still needs some more work before we can start being fully competitive with Gecko, specifically in the areas of virtual structs and non-zeroing drop.

(I'd be happy to be proven wrong, though!)

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Certainly, as njn has brought online each new memory profiling feature, he's discovered something ridiculous we were doing in Servo (e.g., copying things we thought we weren't; continuous memory leaks; poor use of underlying native gfx buffers, etc.). I suspect that in the near term there's plenty of low-hanging "Servo is doing something dumb" fruit to keep us busy while we log some Rust implementation issues for the smaller things.

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