Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

[Bill Longman]

On 09/24/10 09:48, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson <beau@××××××××××××.com
> <mailto: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.
>
> ++ kevin
>
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>
ICC is the Intel C compiler.