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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox-bin optimizations?
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:22:32
Message-Id: AANLkTi=UjaEtWZ4XkMVopN3NyX-=LtRyauRX_jsgapKM@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox-bin optimizations? by Walter Dnes
1 On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 06:53:04PM +0300, Arttu V. wrote
3 >
4 >> Thus equipped, I copied both mozconfig-3.eclass and
5 >> mozcoreconf-2.eclass over to a local overlay, modified their hardcoded
6 >> --enable-pango statements into --disable-pango's, re-emerged both
7 >> packages (xulrunner, firefox), and now about:buildconfig shows among
8 >> other things:
9 >>
10 >> <snip>
11 >> Configure arguments
12 >> --enable-application=xulrunner --enable-optimize --disable-installer
13 >> --disable-pedantic --enable-crypto --with-system-jpeg
14 >> --with-system-zlib --disable-updater --disable-pango --disable-svg
15 >> --enable-system-cairo --disable-strip --disable-strip-libs
16 >> --disable-install-strip
17 >> </snip>
18 >>
19 >> There it is, --disable-pango.
20 >
21 >  Thanks for the explanation.  I've got pango disabled now.  I'll see
22 > what else I can get rid of.
23 >
24 >> Arttu V. -- Running Gentoo is like running with scissors
25 >
26 >  Gentoo is a really sharp distro<G>.
27
28 AFAIR many years ago (in firefox 1.x days) Pango was already the cause
29 of many people's slowdowns, it was also slower the more fonts you had
30 installed on your system. Back then, you could disable Pango at
31 runtime by doing:
32
33 export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1
34
35 Maybe it still works.