On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 12:08 -0800, Lars Tunkrans wrote: > I can do a Native build of firefox " -xtarget =opteron -xarch=sse2a " > > But would it benefit the end user ? > > Is there any way to find out , except dissasembling the resulting > binary > if any major bits of graphic processing has been converted into SIMD > instructions ? > > Firefox is ofcourse one of the main applications run on a Sun Ray based > Info Kiosk. > And I need it as snappy as possible.
I compile my own SeaMonkey (well, iceape) as it does provide a noticeable speed improvement. For Linux there's http://getswiftfox.com/ and http://swiftweasel.tuxfamily.org/ if you'd like to easily compare different compiler options. James Andrewartha
