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Firefox Faster In Wine Than Native
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.'"
except I'm using Linux
Firefox Faster In Wine
And here I was thinking inebriation led to slower brain functions!
The disappearing pencil trick. Let me show you it.
You should test it for yourself - benchmark which setup loads the fucking article fastest and let us know how that turns out.
hey i want the page render before i even click the link (possibly using thiotimoline, but i don't care about specifics), until the browser does that i will never be happy!
IranAir Flight 655 never forget!
Well in many scenarios the browser downloads and executes stuff even before you click the link.
;).
For some reason they called those security issues.
People are never satisfied
Switch from Ubuntu to LFS, only level 10+ dwarves are allowed there.
Actually, I think it's "Good, Fast, Cheap. Pick 2". And for online dating, it seems to be "Attractive, Intelligent, Sane. Pick 2".
You run antivirus on wine?
I am no expert here, but when I look at this I don't see any -Ox and I am pretty sure the default is -O0...
Actually, I think it's "Good, Fast, Cheap. Pick 2". And for online dating, it seems to be "Attractive, Intelligent, Sane. Pick 2".
More often "Pick 1"
Looking indefinitely for that which really does not exist has always been the curse (or blessing) of man. Some call it faith.
No, he's right. I still use Linux to distribute my TRON fanzines and personal Dungeons and Dragons web-sites. Although I have expanded its use to include presenting slideshows of my Sailor Moon hentai.
Disgusting.
Many of us here don't take kindly to people like you who advocating violation of the Temporal Accords. As a pre-verteran of the temporal cold war I still carry the scars that conflict will inflict on me.
Attractive and Intelligent works for me! Just don't sleep with her, and by sleep I mean fall asleep. Also hide all knives and scissors.
Well he said the Unix way so I'm assuming he's thinking of some sort of demented scheme involving fork() and a filter-style JS interpreter which spits out a shell script which is then piped to bash with the DOM as an HTML file and the output redirected back to Firefox. Or the official Windows binary was compiled with Intel's monolithic compiler rather than gcc.
"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is living in a state of sin." -- John von Neumann
I guess it's all a matter of preference. Right now my glibc is washing the dishes, which is great since my wife won't. However, in some other house they might want glibc to stay the hell out of the kitchen.
Just disrupt the deflector shield with a tachyon burst.