Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Bill Longman <bill.longman@×××××.com>wrote:

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

Ahh..   I've heard good things about it, but I'm under the impression it is
not free (as in beer).  Is that true?

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD