Firefox performance

[Adam Pribyl]

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Gilboa Davara wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 17:45 +0100, Adam Pribyl wrote:
>
> I can confirm these results: (V8)
>
> Fedora 10, 2 x Xeon E5335, 8GB, 1TB RAID.
>
> Native:
> Score: 134
>
> Firefox under wine.
> Score: 163
>
> - Gilboa

OK, so it is confirmed, the Firefox using wine _emulator_ on Fedora is 
most probably _faster_ than the _natively_ compiled Firefox.

Now the question is what we can do to change this. Can we change some 
compilation flags, some library dependencies, xul or gecko options, some 
prefferences in about:config? Are the Fedora/Linux builds lacking any 
enhancements that are available in Windows version? Those are the 
questions, we should try to find the answer. So go on with benchmarks, but 
try to tweak in various ways the FF, so we can beat the emulator.
It makes no sense to compare various systems performace, as the score is 
depending on your computer horse power.

The fact that there is FF3.1+ in F11 is no excuse, because there could be 
pretty the same situation - will be faster in Wine than native.


Adam Pribyl