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Firefox On Linux Gets Faster Builds — To Be Fast As Windows

Posted by timothy on from the gotta-have-a-benchmark dept.

dkd903 writes "Mozilla's Mike Hommey has announced on his blog that his team at Mozilla has finally managed to get the Linux builds of Firefox to use GCC 4.5 with aggressive optimization and profile guided optimization enabled. All this simply means that we can now expect a faster and less sluggish Firefox browser on Linux (both 32 bit and 64 bit systems)."

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  1. Re:You poor deluded fools. by maxwell+demon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Microsoft Internet Explorer is clearly superior in every way.

    Especially on Linux. :-)

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  2. Both faster AND less sluggish? by thisisauniqueid · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wow.

  3. Profile guided? by zippthorne · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Does that mean they weren't using a profiler before now??

    That... actually explains quite a bit...

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  4. Re:A good summary of Linux on the desktop by MSG · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think that the lack of guided optimization on gcc is a fair indication that Microsoft offers a better compiler, but I also think it's a long way from "gcc lacks an option that helps Firefox" to "Linux is for masochists". Seriously, Firefox scored better on some JS benchmarks on Windows than it did on Linux, but that doesn't make the Linux version unusable or painful.

    Anyway, many of us don't use GNU/Linux because it is unfailingly better than alternatives, but because we have an understanding of and appreciation for economic and intellectual liberty which is better served by GNU systems. We regard the use of proprietary systems to be masochistic.