On 24 January 2016 at 20:47, Adam Wolk <adam.w...@tintagel.pl> wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 22:46:39 +0100 (CET) > Mark Kettenis <mark.kette...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > >> Firefox makes a lot of concurrent malloc(3) calls. The locking to >> make malloc(3) thread-safe is a bit...suboptimal. This diff makes >> things better by using a mutex instead of spinlock. If you're running >> Firefox you want to try it; it makes video watchable on some machines. >> If you're not running Firefox you want to try it; to make sure it >> doesn't break things. >> >> Enjoy, >> >> Mark >> ' > > Applied to a Jan 15h snapshot sources. Youtube is not fully 'watchable' > on firefox but feels significantly better. I can also now watch full > screen youtube videos on chromium 1920x1080 with no stutter (lenovo > g50-70). > > Generally gnome 3 feels a bit snappier especially on first load, > bringing up the menu searching for 'terminal' leads to a faster > rendering of the results. This might be just 'imagined' by me. > > On a more measurable front. I ran the octane benchmark against firefox > post and before the patch. It resulted in a slight improvement from > 12486 to 12826 score [1]. > > cpu0: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4510U CPU @ 2.00GHz, 1895.93 MHz > cpu1: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4510U CPU @ 2.00GHz, 1895.62 MHz > cpu2: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4510U CPU @ 2.00GHz, 1895.62 MHz > cpu3: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4510U CPU @ 2.00GHz, 1895.62 MHz > inteldrm0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel HD Graphics" rev 0x0b > running Intel Haswell Mobile for the gfx card. > > Regards, > Adam > > [1] - https://twitter.com/mulander/status/691327370985345024
Hi, pretty much the same results here, though running Lenovo X250 with i7-5600U. Dankuwel Mark, nice finding. -- Regards, Ville Valkonen
