On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Bill Longman <bill.long...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 09/24/10 09:48, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson <b...@thehenderson.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. > > ICC is the Intel C compiler. > Ahh.. I've heard good things about it, but I'm under the impression it is not free (as in beer). Is that true? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
