On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:43:47PM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras squawked: > 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.)
Actually, why is it that upstream does not provide 64bit binaries? (It always bothers me to see my wife's Windows 7 machines running a copy of firefox marked, in parenthesis, 32 bit.) > 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. I should definitely do that. W -- Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
