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Firefox Faster In Wine Than Native

Posted by timothy on from the that-sounds-hard-to-swallow dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Tuxradar did some benchmarks comparing Firefox's Windows and Linux JavaScript performance. 'We did some simple JavaScript benchmarks of Firefox 3.0 using Windows and Linux to see how it performed across the platforms — and the results are pretty bleak for Linux.' Later on, they tried Wine. 'The end result: Firefox from Mozilla or from Fedora has almost nil speed difference, and Firefox running on Wine is faster than native Firefox.'"

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  1. Re:Noticed this for a while now by ozphx · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It could be GTK. GDI is very fast, but horribly kludgy. WPF is better in design - but also slower.

    Would not surprise me at all if the rendering end was slowing things down. (Plus the general horrible-ness of X).

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  2. Re:Why not? by assert(0) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Great advice, except typing "PGO" into google is completely useless.

    1: PGO is the leading motorcycle,ATV,buggy and scooter manufacturer ...

    2: Home - Office of the Public Guardian

    3: PGO Scooters - 50cc, 125cc and 250cc scooters ordered direct from ...

    4: PG&O - Precision Glass and Optics

    5: Welcome to the PGO Automobiles UK

    6: Pennsylvannia Golf Course Owners Association - PGO.

    7: etc.

    If you're going to be a google-nazi, at least test run your queries first.

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