Martin Robinson

Michigan (USA), 1983

I'm a software developer working on WebKitGTK+.

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Martin Robinson 04/04/2009

Avoiding the Logging Performance Hit

Sometimes you have a function or a method which more often throws away its arguments than actually uses them. Quite possibly the most common example of this situation is logging. Often you'll see a snippet like this:log.Debug("Processing " + index + " of...

Martin Robinson 06/03/2009

DBus and Threads

Sometimes you'll be using Dbus with threads and notice intermittent segfaults with stack traces like this;#0 0xb4d58d29 in _dbus_watch_invalidate (watch=0x0) at dbus-watch.c:147#1 0xb4d57066 in free_watches (transport=0x979c0d0) at...

Martin Robinson 18/01/2009

Compiling D Source is Easy

There are two compilers available for D. The original D compiler (the one written by Walter) is DMD. It has an open-source front-end (the part that generate the IL) and a proprietary, closed-source back-end (the part that converts the IL into machine...

Martin Robinson 03/01/2009

Different People

Being There warms my heart for several reasons. One of the most notable is that Hal Ashby managed to turn a Cheech and Chong song into some kind of religious experience with umbrellas. There is also the unexpected vignette during the ending, which many...

Martin Robinson 02/01/2009

Embedding Python in D

Oooooooooh.It's some snakes.It's some snakes.A while back I began spending some time acquainting myself with D. For those who don't know, D is a relatively new system programming language with all kinds of interesting features like very flexible garbage...

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Changeset [150192]: [GTK] [CMake] Disable the shadow DOM ...

[GTK] [CMake] Disable the shadow DOM ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116237 Reviewed by Gustavo Noronha Silva. Source/cmake/OptionsGTK.cmake: Disable shadow DOM by default.

Martin Robinson16/05/2013

Changeset [150191]: [GTK] Documentation for WEBKIT_DEBUG logging channels is out of date ...

[GTK] Documentation for WEBKIT_DEBUG logging channels is out of date ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114764 Reviewed by Gustavo Noronha Silva. docs/webkitenvironment.xml: Update documentation to reflect current list of logging channels.

Martin Robinson16/05/2013

Changeset [150189]: [GTK] Add support for building WebCore to the cmake build ...

[GTK] Add support for building WebCore to the cmake build ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116128 Reviewed by Gustavo Noronha Silva. .: Source/PlatformGTK.cmake: Added. Source/cmake/OptionsGTK.cmake: Added more logic and variables to...

Martin Robinson16/05/2013

Changeset [150018]: [GTK] [WebKit2] Use a template file for generated GObject enum files ...

[GTK] [WebKit2] Use a template file for generated GObject enum files ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115867 Reviewed by Carlos Garcia Campos. GNUmakefile.am: Use a template file instead of specifying portions of the file on the...

Martin Robinson13/05/2013

Changeset [149968]: [GTK] Add a basic cmake build for WTF and JavaScriptCore ...

[GTK] Add a basic cmake build for WTF and JavaScriptCore ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115967 Reviewed by Laszlo Gombos. .: CMakeLists.txt: Add GTK+ to the list of ports. Source/CMakeLists.txt: We do not try to build WebCoreTestSupport...

Martin Robinson12/05/2013