572124 - Ensure all TP startup operations are async and happen off the main thread

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Mozilla Labs Graveyard :: Test Pilot, defect, P1)

Description

[Jono Xia]

Any expensive operations Test Pilot does on startup - e.g. reading and indexing jar files -- should happen asynchronously and off the main thread so that they don't slow down the main Firefox startup.  (Which we are measuring in bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572123 )

Comment 1

[Jono Xia]

Actually, after carefully reviewing all the code, TestPilotSetup.globalStartup() calls all the heavy lifting stuff, and globalStartup() is called in response to an observer notification (in the component), so it's already off the main thread.  I don't think there's anything to do here; closing this bug until/unless there's some evidence of Test Pilot slowing down startup.