On 09/24/10 09:56, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Bill Longman <bill.long...@gmail.com
> <mailto:bill.long...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On 09/24/10 09:48, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson
>> <b...@thehenderson.com <mailto:b...@thehenderson.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>
>> On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>> I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but
>> Firefox in Linux
>> has always been pretty bad in general for me. Slow
>> UI, unusable in NX
>> (constant screen redraws; Thunderbird does the same
>> thing), network
>> stalling for MINUTES at a time, slow to load, etc.
>> Other browsers on
>> the same machine don't suffer any of these problems.
>> I don't use
>> Firefox as my primary browser because it is so flaky.
>>
>>
>> That's odd, because on this newish i5 box, which is
>> suffering really
>> severe responsiveness problems otherwise, FF responds to
>> my commands
>> smartly.
>>
>>
>> Firefox for windows is compiled with PGO via ICC which
>> apparently improves performance quite a bit. I believe there
>> are issues when firefox is compiled with GCC via PGO and in
>> any case, there is no support for PGO building of Firefox @
>> gentoo afaik. I wish I had the time and knowledge to whip up
>> an ebuild that could do the magic to test it out tho.
>>
>> Any takers ? :P
>>
>> Uh, what are PGO and ICC??
>>
>> I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on
>> Ubuntu let alone Vista, which makes me take your suggestion about
>> build parameters seriously.
> ICC is the Intel C compiler.
>
>
> Ahh.. I've heard good things about it, but I'm under the impression
> it is not free (as in beer). Is that true?
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>
I don't know but I can emerge -q icc
