Firefox performance

[Felix Miata]

On 2009/02/13 12:58 (GMT-0430) Patrick O'Callaghan composed:

> On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 11:03 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote:

>> From: Adam Pribyl <pribyl at lowlevel.cz>

>> > Is there anything we can do to improve the Fedora picture?

> http://www.tuxradar.com/content/browser-benchmarks-2-even-wine-beats-linux-firefox 

>> Yes, this needs to be addressed.

>> i386 Firefox 3.0.6       i386 Firefox 3.0.6 w/ Wine
>> Score: 99.9              Score: 117

3.0.6 RPM here on openSUSE 11.0: 101
2.0.0.20 on same: 49.9
Opera 9.63: 95.7
Minefield 20090213 (3.2a1pre) (192 DPI): 59.0
Minefield 20090213 (3.2a1pre) (120 DPI): 64.1
Minefield 20090213 (3.2a1pre) (96 DPI): 54.3

3.4GHz Cedar Mill w/ 4G RAM on KDE 3.5.9

> There's some discussion on Slashdot that this is because the Windows
> version uses something called Profile-Based Optimization and the Linux
> version doesn't. I don't know if that's true (or if it matters).

>From irc://moznet/#firefox 	<nthomas|afk>	MrMazda, Havvy: profile-guided
optimisation is only done on windows

I take that to mean it makes a significant difference. nthomas is Nick
Thomas, Firefox dev.
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