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 > > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org -------- Ginn Chen Software Engineer, Browser Team Sun Microsystems, Inc. Phone: x82869 / +86-10-62673869 Fax: +86-10-62780969
