On 09/24/10 09:48, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson <b...@thehenderson.com
> <mailto:b...@thehenderson.com>> wrote:
>
> On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
> On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote:
>
> I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but
> Firefox in Linux
> has always been pretty bad in general for me. Slow UI,
> unusable in NX
> (constant screen redraws; Thunderbird does the same
> thing), network
> stalling for MINUTES at a time, slow to load, etc. Other
> browsers on
> the same machine don't suffer any of these problems. I
> don't use
> Firefox as my primary browser because it is so flaky.
>
>
> That's odd, because on this newish i5 box, which is suffering
> really
> severe responsiveness problems otherwise, FF responds to my
> commands
> smartly.
>
>
> Firefox for windows is compiled with PGO via ICC which apparently
> improves performance quite a bit. I believe there are issues when
> firefox is compiled with GCC via PGO and in any case, there is no
> support for PGO building of Firefox @ gentoo afaik. I wish I had
> the time and knowledge to whip up an ebuild that could do the
> magic to test it out tho.
>
> Any takers ? :P
>
> Uh, what are PGO and ICC??
>
> I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on Ubuntu
> let alone Vista, which makes me take your suggestion about build
> parameters seriously.
>
> ++ kevin
>
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>
ICC is the Intel C compiler.
