Firefox performance

[Rudolf Kastl]

2009/2/14 Adam Pribyl <pribyl at lowlevel.cz>:
> 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.

wine is not an emulator.

>
> 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
>
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