Re: [H] SSE Firefox?

2010-05-27 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 05:10 PM 26/05/2010, Scoobydo wrote: I'm pretty sure that AMD and Intel both support SSE and SSE2 extensions so what optimization is dude referring to? I'm skeptical there is any speed difference that Mozilla hasn't already taken advantage of. Have you downloaded and tried for yourself? Ok,

Re: [H] SSE Firefox?

2010-05-27 Thread Scoobydo
Guess not, figured it was a gimmick for a programmer to drum up business. The world is full of charlatans.. On Thu, 27 May 2010 09:24:59 -0500, Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com wrote: At 05:10 PM 26/05/2010, Scoobydo wrote: I'm pretty sure that AMD and Intel both support

[H] SSE Firefox?

2010-05-26 Thread Thane Sherrington
Ok, this version of Firefox is optimized for SSE? http://www.binaryturf.com/free-software/blazing-fast-firefox-optimized-distributions/ Has anyone tried this? Is it actually faster? T

Re: [H] SSE Firefox?

2010-05-26 Thread Scoobydo
I'm pretty sure that AMD and Intel both support SSE and SSE2 extensions so what optimization is dude referring to? I'm skeptical there is any speed difference that Mozilla hasn't already taken advantage of. Have you downloaded and tried for yourself? On Wed, 26 May 2010 14:41:49 -0500,

Re: [H] SSE Firefox?

2010-05-26 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 05:10 PM 26/05/2010, Scoobydo wrote: I'm pretty sure that AMD and Intel both support SSE and SSE2 extensions so what optimization is dude referring to? I'm skeptical there is any speed difference that Mozilla hasn't already taken advantage of. Have you downloaded and tried for yourself?

Re: [H] SSE Firefox?

2010-05-26 Thread maccrawj
Bigger question is will it help with the crushing load of Flash? hehe...