Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] FF3 stability and performance concerns

2008-11-05 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Martin Bochnig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure, I agree with you. That's what GCC(1) offers the [-std=standard] > options for (of course Studio has a limited similar functionality, > which supports less standards unfortunately). However, it is not > GCC(1)'s fault if many folks tend to write c

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] FF3 stability and performance concerns

2008-11-05 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alfred Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Martin Bochnig wrote: >> > I like gcc because it has repeatedly helped me to get things working, >> > which not only would first need to be ported to Studio, but which in >> > s

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] FF3 stability and performance concerns

2008-11-05 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alfred Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Bochnig wrote: > > I like gcc because it has repeatedly helped me to get things working, > > which not only would first need to be ported to Studio, but which in > > some cases cannot even be ported to Studio at all. Another example is > > Qemu. > >

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] FF3 stability and performance concerns

2008-11-04 Thread Alfred Peng
Martin Bochnig wrote: > I like gcc because it has repeatedly helped me to get things working, > which not only would first need to be ported to Studio, but which in > some cases cannot even be ported to Studio at all. Another example is > Qemu. > gcc is the choice for a lot of open source projec

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] FF3 stability and performance concerns

2008-11-04 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ginn Chen wrote: >> Currently on Solaris, libpixman in system cairo or Firefox doesn't build >> with MMX & SSE >> acceleration, that is something we can improve for x86. > > Both copies of libpixman (are there really two?

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] FF3 stability and performance concerns

2008-11-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ginn Chen wrote: > Currently on Solaris, libpixman in system cairo or Firefox doesn't build > with MMX & SSE > acceleration, that is something we can improve for x86. Both copies of libpixman (are there really two?) should go away soon anyway, now that the shared libpixman is integrated to X for n

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] FF3 stability and performance concerns

2008-11-04 Thread ken mays
--- On Mon, 11/3/08, Ginn Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Ginn Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] FF3 stability and performance > concerns > To: "Alan Coopersmith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: opensolari

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] FF3 stability and performance concerns

2008-11-03 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Ginn Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 3, 2008, at 11:52 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> Joerg Schilling wrote: >>> >>> Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> That's an odd comment, considering most reviews of FF3 I've seen commends it for bei

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] FF3 stability and performance concerns

2008-11-03 Thread Ginn Chen
On Nov 3, 2008, at 11:52 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: >> Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> That's an odd comment, considering most reviews of FF3 I've seen >>> commends it for being both faster and leaking less memory tan its >>> predecessor. >>> >>> It's certa

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] FF3 stability and performance concerns

2008-10-31 Thread Scott Rotondo
Jason King wrote: > > Even worse than that, even on a Ferrari 4000 2ghz w/ 1gb ram, starting > with around sxce b98, the desktop in general seem to be suffering from > a critical performance regression, FF3 seems to be the worst in this > respect. I've seen systems where actual swapping (not pagi

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] FF3 stability and performance concerns

2008-10-31 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:30:02 +1300 Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/ > > indicates that there's pretty big demand generally for Firefox 3, so But copies downloaded does not equal copies in use. So that indicates there's a big demand to che

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] FF3 stability and performance concerns

2008-10-31 Thread Jason King
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Martin Bochnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:30 AM, Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 31/10/2008, at 3:58 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: >>> >>> But shipping FF3 as default browser undermines efforts like this (in >>> your own distro

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] FF3 stability and performance concerns

2008-10-30 Thread Martin Bochnig
More Firefox Bloat? Say It Ain't So, Mozilla http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2007/05/firefox_bloat On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 6:34 AM, Jason King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Martin Bochnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:30 AM,

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] FF3 stability and performance concerns

2008-10-30 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:30 AM, Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 31/10/2008, at 3:58 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: >> >> But shipping FF3 as default browser undermines efforts like this (in >> your own distros SXCE and Indiana), because on this end you waste 10 >> times the resources that

Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] FF3 stability and performance concerns

2008-10-30 Thread Glynn Foster
On 31/10/2008, at 3:58 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: > But shipping FF3 as default browser undermines efforts like this (in > your own distros SXCE and Indiana), because on this end you waste 10 > times the resources that others are trying to save piece for piece (in > their distros). Why don't you mo