On Tuesday 21 September 2004 16:08, you wrote: | You can always use Gentoo instead ( ;-) ) or compile Mozilla yourself | with optimizations switches. The default package is optimized enough. The whole gentoo gcc optimization can boost your performance with a 1-2% rate, which is not worth the 12+ hours wait untill you compile everything (I have the same CPU and mount of memory at home). I am a gentoo use myself, but I still use firefox` binary build.
Muli, on the other hand, gave you a good suggestion. Try prelinking the libraries. That speeds up loads dramatically. | It will reduce quite a lot of the first load and subsequenet loads. | | Here is a link for a comparison in performance: | http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/performance.xml | | | Is it Mozilla or Firefox? | | Eran. | | Eran Tromer wrote: | >Hi, | > | >On my otherwise idle Linux box, Mozilla startup takes about 7.5 seconds | >(5 of which are CPU usage), even on repeated invocations when everything | >supposed to be cached. Any idea how to reduce this? Purging the plugins | >and bookmarks.html makes no noticable difference. | > | >Running Fedora Core 2 and RedHat's Mozilla 1.7.2 RPM on AthlonXP 2500+ | >(+20% overclock) with 512MB RAM. | > | > Eran | > | > Best regards, Alex -- The difference between theory and practice, is that in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
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