On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:28:43AM -0700, David Anderson wrote:
> On Thursday, October 11, 2012 5:49:07 PM UTC-7, Brian Smith wrote:
> > I think it is important to give Linux users the fastest browser we
> > can give them, because:
> 
> It's still unclear to me what our Linux PGO builds mean. Do
> distributions use them?

No, distributions build from scratch.

> If not, are they using the exact same compiler version and PGO
> environment data?

No.

> If not, then they have a different configuration that we haven't
> tested.
> 
> If distributions are using these builds, or these builds are favored
> by users over distribution builds (...)

We actually don't know. Or if someone knows from actual data rather than
conjecture, they haven't made the information public.  I do know that
some people prefer the mozilla builds over distro builds, but I don't
know if they are a lot.

Mike
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