[geeks] Browser speed on older Sun (was: What graphical environments ...)

[Francois Dion]

I guess the next question is, did you get the milestone release, the nightly
build or built it yourself? I dont think nightlies have high optimisation. Sun's
ns7 is compiled with Forte, firebird with Gnu if you got the binaries. It would
be interesting to play with the various compiler options and see if things can
be improved.

Francois

Daniel Johannsson <djohanns at northwestern.edu> said:

> On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Francois Dion wrote:
> > Have you tried Firebird on it? Just curious...
>
> I just tried Firebird on this machine, and found it to be close, but not
> quite as fast as Sun's ns7.  Perhaps Sun put some time into good
> optimization on this build, because I feel like it's about as zippy as
> ns4.  Anyone else feel that ns7 is fast on their old boxes, or am I
> imagining things?  Specs on the box are: ss10, 2 x sm51, 224mb, Sol 8 with
> all recent patches.
>
> later,
>
> Dan Johannsson
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