Bug 77874 – [EFL] Drop support for the Curl network backend.

• Component: WebKit EFL
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco)]

[EFL] Drop support for the Curl network backend.

[Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco)]

Created attachment 125647 [details]
Patch

[Gyuyoung Kim]

Comment on attachment 125647 [details]
Patch

Attachment 125647 [details] did not pass efl-ews (efl):
Output: http://queues.webkit.org/results/11432332

[Gyuyoung Kim]

I wanna decide to remove this libcurl support after profiling libcurl. The result will be updated soon.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Comment on attachment 125647 [details]
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I'm happy to rubber-stamp this, except it seems to break the efl-ews.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Please make sure to follow-up by removing the actual curl support files if EFL was the last client of curl.

[Leandro Pereira]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Please make sure to follow-up by removing the actual curl support files if EFL
> was the last client of curl.

The WinCairo port seems to use cURL. The other network backend used by the Windows port is CFNetwork, which still seems to be proprietary.

[Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco)]

Created attachment 126431 [details]
Patch for landing

[Gyuyoung Kim]

If many guys agree on removing curl port from WebCore, I also agree with this removal. But, I'm still wanna decide this removal after libcurl performance profiling in EFL port. I was told that the performance profiling result will be reported by next week.

[Sungman Kim]

I did comparing loading test with libsoup and libcurl last week. 
Total test site number is 96 and 
our test result is below.
Average :
libsoup 4.93sec
libcurl 5.51sec
Libcurl is better than libsoup just in case of 6 sites.
Libcurl's performance is not better.
These are our test results.
Thank you.

[Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco)]

(In reply to comment #9)
> I did comparing loading test with libsoup and libcurl last week. 
> Total test site number is 96 and 
> our test result is below.
> Average :
> libsoup 4.93sec
> libcurl 5.51sec
> Libcurl is better than libsoup just in case of 6 sites.
> Libcurl's performance is not better.
> These are our test results.
> Thank you.

OK, thanks. For posterity, it would be good to know more about the methodology of these tests (ie. what exactly was tested and how).

[Raphael Kubo da Costa (:rakuco)]

Committed r107562: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/107562>

[Sungman Kim]

OK. We added test codes for page logging loading time including some exception handling.
If we start browser app. then it read the url lists for test and memorize loading start time each url loading start. When the loading is finished for one site, loading time is calculated and automatically start loading next url.
For using these methods, we tested about 96 urls each 6 times. 
Each Libcurl and Libsoup devices are started loading synchronously. (actually a little term is exist)
Thank you.