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[Manne Merak <mannemerak@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:30:04AM +0200, Manne Merak wrote:
>   
> > Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
> >     
> > > 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
> > >
> > >   
> > >       
> > Any pointers on where to start to get Firefox built?
> > I installed FFX 3.1 beta src and is now struggling to get autoconf to
> > generate a configure file?
> > Some HOWTOs available?  (tried the Mozilla Dev page, but its not working)
> >     
>
> Why not start from the .spec file and just build as RPM?
>
> Ciao, Marcus
>
>   

Ok, will check how to mod die spec file to include profile optimization.

Manne

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