On Oct 31, 2008, at 11:02 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> 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.

That's not true.
We built Firefox with Sun Studio on Solaris.

Ginn

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Ginn Chen
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Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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