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Alan Grimes wrote: |
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> Dale wrote: |
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>> Dale wrote: |
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>> This is something I have noticed that changed since the gcc upgrade. |
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>> One, Firefox seems to use less memory. It's not a whole lot less but it |
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>> is less for sure. It also uses a lot less CPU power. Used to if I had |
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>> two or three Firefox profiles running, I could see 20, 30 and sometimes |
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>> even more CPU usage. Gkrellm would have a good bit of orange and the |
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>> little needle thing would be hovering around 30 to 40% on all the cores |
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>> with it spiking to well over 50% quite a lot. Closing Firefox would put |
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>> it down to single digits so I know it was Firefox causing this. Now, |
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>> with 4 instances running, it is hovering around 10 to 15%. |
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> Yeah, I monitor GCC changelogs closely... |
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> A while back they were talking about their new code de-duplication pass |
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> and how, as an example, in Firefox it removed over 30,000 duplicate |
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> functions... |
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> I really don't know what's going on over at the mozilla project these |
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> days. I still use Seamonkey because it has all my e-mails but its |
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> performance is fantastically awful these days. |
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I use Seamonkey for email and related things too. I use Firefox for |
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some other things, it has more add-ons than Seamonkey. To me, it seems |
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as if Seamonkey is not getting the attention it used to. It's not lean |
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and mean, it's fat and slow. I'm not sure what makes it so tho. |
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I'm glad Firefox is better tho. Makes me wonder about the next gcc. o_O |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |