On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > What is the last time you used it on Sparc? > > Netscape always was slower on sparc systems then on even slower x86 machines. > I would guess that there is strange byte order dependent code inside the > graphics engine.
There is also the possibility that SPARC Firefox is built with GCC rather than Sun's compiler. The Sun compiler produces much better code for SPARC whereas GCC produces better code for x86. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
