Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2576 mails)

[Allen Zhu <allen.jaloola@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Gryffus <gryffus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Building_with_Profile-Guided_Optimization
>
> Would this help?
>
> Regards
>       Gfs
>
> Wolfgang Rosenauer napsal(a):
> > Manne Merak schrieb:
> >
> > > Everyone have probably seen the benchmarks about the poor performance of
> > > Firefox on Linux compared to Windows.
> > > Apparently even Wine+Firefox beats native firefox (actually I tried it
> > > and its true).
> > >
> > > Some say it is because Win FFX is compiled with PGO ( profile-guided
> > > optimization) and without in most Linux distros.
> > >
> > > So, my question - can I request that FFX be compiled with PGO?  or is
> > > there some technical reason its not done so already?
> >
> > So doing it automated isn't that easy since to create the profile you
> > have to exercise stuff in a running Firefox (at least on Linux).
> > I'm open for input how that could be done in a packaging environment.
> >
> >
> > Wolfgang

Seems as it does...

One part I don't get is that it mentions Visual Studio but only gives
info for gcc...

Allen

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