On Monday 03 November 2003 06:25 am, David Coe wrote:
> Ah .. the [EMAIL PROTECTED] that was (or still is).
well [EMAIL PROTECTED] has merged into [EMAIL PROTECTED] but that is a small amount of
what [EMAIL PROTECTED] does.
>
> > I also know since i have started rebuilding the mandrake rpm's with some
> > extreme optimizations that I do not see this behavior at all on my
> > mandrake boxen. However I have had issues with the mandrake builds of
> > mozilla for about 2 years now they just randomly lock up, completely
> > crash, or the one that really bugs me is that after a while of use it
> > gets so that you can not select text in the address bar. You have to shut
> > it down to fix this. Because of this I almost never use the mandrake
> > rpm's for mozilla.
>
> I did wonder about athlons and the degree of optimization. I recall the
> same scenario at MDK 9.1 release time. Buchan's "early-bird" Mozilla 1.3
> migrated to cooker AFAIR mainly with -O3 moved back to -O2 and what felt
> like a drop in stability. The abrupt closure I see, the lock-up rather
> rarely and the loss of text selection not at all.
well here are the flags I'm playing with now.
optflags: athlon -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe
-march=athlon-xp -ffast-math -fno-strength-reduce -fforce-addr -m3dnow -msse
-mfpmath=sse,387 -mmmx -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt
-falign-functions=4 -maccumulate-outgoing-args -fprefetch-loop-arrays
out of those the -O3 and --march=athlon-xp will give the biggest boost. and
these can not be used for everything. glibc had to be backed off some bug gcc
compiled fine. xfree had to be backed off some also but qt compiles fine with
these. It is much snappier on my athlon machine I'm slowly working on more
things. KDE is next and possibly the kernel but i dont really feel like
playing with the kernel rpm much.
>
> > My regular usage is to have 1 or 2 mozilla windows open with maybe 10 or
> > 15 tabs per window. This I have running for possibly weeks. With the
> > mandrake builds I get maybe 3 or 4 days max.
>
> That sounds like you're dispensing with xft and/or using Mozilla's own
> binaries. Fortunately (like OO.o) installation is very easy :-).
yes I am and I tell you what I miss xft very much. Jaggy mozilla is no fun. I
have also been playing with the custom builds of thunderbird and firebird
from mozillazine. These are done by others in the community. They run very
nice.
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