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		serve_yay on Aug 21, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons > ... [cross-process object wrappers] are much slower than the equivalent DOM operations in single-process Firefox, and can affect the user experience negatively. Also, some accesses aren’t supported by the compatibility layer and will throw exceptions. Hmm, that sounds... bad?

quotemstr on Aug 21, 2015 [–]

I don't see why cross-process XPCOM would have to be particularly slow. Windows is built on cross-process COM.

TazeTSchnitzel on Aug 21, 2015 | [–]

Windows isn't built on COM, Windows is built on Win32 which is a 1980s API hurriedly updated to 32-bit.

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