On 23/02/12 22:24, Willie WY Wong wrote:
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 09:55:07PM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras
squawked:
The PGO optimized build that Mozilla is shipping. You can also build
with PGO from source, but that means building FF *twice* in a row (by
enabling the "pgo" USE flag). I doubt that with the old laptop anyone
is building FF twice with PGO, and that means that the -bin package
should be faster.
Call me a sadist, but on my netbook I did build FF with +pgo.
I figured, if I was going to let it build overnight and more, why not?
:)
If you think it's worth the hassle, why not. Personally, the only
reason I would build from source on such a slow system is to get a
64-bit build, since the -bin package seems to be 32-bit. That means the
GUI is going to look like ass on AMD64 (due to lack of 32-bit versions
of the Gtk theme engines.)
If you're on 32-bit to begin with, and you're building with "pgo"
enabled, then my guess is that the performance compared to the -bin
package is about the same. But as I said previously, this can be easily
tested by running a browser benchmark, such as this:
http://krakenbenchmark.mozilla.org
You could compare the results of the -bin package vs your self-compiled one.
