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On 09/24/10 09:56, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Bill Longman <bill.longman@×××××.com |
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> <mailto:bill.longman@×××××.com>> wrote: |
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> On 09/24/10 09:48, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson |
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>> <beau@××××××××××××.com <mailto:beau@××××××××××××.com>> wrote: |
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>> On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>> On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: |
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>> I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but |
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>> Firefox in Linux |
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>> has always been pretty bad in general for me. Slow |
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>> UI, unusable in NX |
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>> (constant screen redraws; Thunderbird does the same |
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>> thing), network |
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>> stalling for MINUTES at a time, slow to load, etc. |
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>> Other browsers on |
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>> the same machine don't suffer any of these problems. |
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>> I don't use |
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>> Firefox as my primary browser because it is so flaky. |
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>> That's odd, because on this newish i5 box, which is |
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>> suffering really |
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>> severe responsiveness problems otherwise, FF responds to |
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>> my commands |
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>> smartly. |
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>> Firefox for windows is compiled with PGO via ICC which |
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>> apparently improves performance quite a bit. I believe there |
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>> are issues when firefox is compiled with GCC via PGO and in |
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>> any case, there is no support for PGO building of Firefox @ |
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>> gentoo afaik. I wish I had the time and knowledge to whip up |
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>> an ebuild that could do the magic to test it out tho. |
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>> Any takers ? :P |
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>> Uh, what are PGO and ICC?? |
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>> I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on |
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>> Ubuntu let alone Vista, which makes me take your suggestion about |
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>> build parameters seriously. |
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> ICC is the Intel C compiler. |
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> Ahh.. I've heard good things about it, but I'm under the impression |
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> it is not free (as in beer). Is that true? |
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> -- |
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> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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I don't know but I can emerge -q icc |
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