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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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Strange Game. |
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The only winning move is not to play. |
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