[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Now, if someone could take some of the drawn widgets and controls and >>make native OS/2 versions. I think a speed increase could occur. > > If this is true then why is Mozilla's UI so much faster in Windows ??? > I would've thought that because of the XUL interface ALL operating > systems would suffer ... so to speak ...
It does suffer. I'm not saying the OS/2 version isn't as highly optimized (as mike says, it's the DLLs), but my point was rather that the CPU and memory usage is MUCH higher than previous generation browsers. With a 1.5GHz CPU you may not see much difference in the speed between platforms. > Specs: > > Windows 2000 box ~ PIII450mhz w/128megs or RAM ... > OS/2 Warp 4 system ~ AMD K6-2 450 w/256megs of RAM ... > > It would appear that somehow Mozilla's UI is optimized for Windows ... I'm sure many operations are. And I'm SURE that the mozilla team has optimized the OS/2 specific code in many ways. But much of the code has not/could not have been touched... If we could get MORE OS/2 programmers helping the warpzilla team... I'm sure lots of things could be done.
