At 5:21 AM -0500 6/16/2009, Kris Tilford wrote: >On Jun 16, 2009, at 5:12 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: > >> How are the above mentioned builds different from the version that >> Firefox automatically updated my B&W to?
The generic builds, provided by the Mozilla team, are compiled for use on all powerpc processors. Except for a few instances, they use only the instructions available in common with all those processors. The optimized builds contain code and instructions optimized *specifically* for that one processor. They are always faster than the generic builds. On slower Macs, they are noticeably MUCH faster. >tried many of the Optimized versions on "Furbism's" page, and some >didn't function completely Furby's builds are bleeding edge nightly, alpha, and beta test, so they're often buggy. >If you're really short on HD space they may save a few MB, but >running Monolingual can extract the non-CPU specific code also, so >there are two ways to skin this cat. Monolingual does NOT remove code. It strips out alternate language resources (translations). - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
