Re: firefox-4.0.1

2011-05-16 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 09:36:37AM +0200, Witold Baryluk wrote: Good work! Keep testing, run some benchmarks please. I im interested about improvements from interpreted JS from 3.6 to interpreted JS in 4.0 :) I don't have anything formal in the way of benchmarks. However, a web site I visit

Re: firefox-4.0.1

2011-05-11 Thread Witold Baryluk
On 05-11 00:49, Bob Tracy wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 02:48:05PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Build successfully completed. Segfaults immediately on invocation: no surprise there. I'll report back when I've got something working, and I expect that will be a while: the combination of tool

Re: firefox-4.0.1

2011-05-11 Thread Michael Cree
On 11/05/11 17:49, Bob Tracy wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 02:48:05PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Build successfully completed. Segfaults immediately on invocation: no surprise there. I'll report back when I've got something working, and I expect that will be a while: the combination of tool

Re: firefox-4.0.1

2011-05-11 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 09:02:06PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: Nice! Thanks... Could you send through those patches to get 4.0.1 working please? Attached. They're small enough to risk offending the few debian-alpha subscribers who might not be interested :-). (...) But as Witold has pointed

Re: firefox-4.0.1

2011-05-10 Thread Bob Tracy
Build successfully completed. Segfaults immediately on invocation: no surprise there. I'll report back when I've got something working, and I expect that will be a while: the combination of tool chain updates and the huge size of the mozilla code base makes for tedious debugging. --Bob -- To

Re: firefox-4.0.1

2011-05-10 Thread Bob Tracy
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 02:48:05PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: Build successfully completed. Segfaults immediately on invocation: no surprise there. I'll report back when I've got something working, and I expect that will be a while: the combination of tool chain updates and the huge size of the

Re: firefox-4.0.1

2011-05-07 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 09:12:36AM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: On 07/05/11 07:11, Bob Tracy wrote: Just a quick note to let interested parties know I'm working on a 4.0.1 firefox build for alpha. Cool! Are you working only on upstream firefox or also on iceweasel in experimental? Just on

Re: firefox-4.0.1

2011-05-07 Thread Matt Turner
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Michael Cree mc...@orcon.net.nz wrote: BTW, I don't think anyone has implemented the Alpha specific code for IPC.  I think firefox has to be compiled with --disable-ipc.  IIRC, the architecture specific code is a set of atomic operations, of which the

Re: firefox-4.0.1

2011-05-07 Thread Michael Cree
On 08/05/11 04:02, Matt Turner wrote: On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Michael Creemc...@orcon.net.nz wrote: BTW, I don't think anyone has implemented the Alpha specific code for IPC.. I think firefox has to be compiled with --disable-ipc. IIRC, the architecture specific code is a set of

Re: firefox-4.0.1

2011-05-07 Thread Michael Cree
On 08/05/11 00:38, Bob Tracy wrote: On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 09:12:36AM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: On 07/05/11 07:11, Bob Tracy wrote: Just a quick note to let interested parties know I'm working on a 4.0.1 firefox build for alpha. Cool! Are you working only on upstream firefox or also on

firefox-4.0.1

2011-05-06 Thread Bob Tracy
Just a quick note to let interested parties know I'm working on a 4.0.1 firefox build for alpha. Frankly, the effort should be worthwhile: I'm impressed with how much more fleet of foot 4.0.1 is relative to 3.6.12 on my AMD K6-III/450, and I expect similar performance improvement on my PWS 433au.

Re: firefox-4.0.1

2011-05-06 Thread Michael Cree
On 07/05/11 07:11, Bob Tracy wrote: Just a quick note to let interested parties know I'm working on a 4.0.1 firefox build for alpha. Cool! Are you working only on upstream firefox or also on iceweasel in experimental? I see the following comment in the iceweasel Debian changelog: