[rescue] Mozilla Firefox

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Thu Apr 22 14:01:03 CDT 2004


On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:19:06PM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 01:36:39PM -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> > 
> > On a side note, Squeak on modest Intel and PPC machines screams, and to
> > my understanding it doesn't even do anything like JIT compiling (though
> > I believe some people are working on that).  I wish I knew why it
> > crawled so slowly on my Octane (Squeak runs nicely on a Pentium 166, but
> > it crawls on my R10k @ 250mhz).
> 
> Sure it is not an X visuals problem?  Try mucking about with that.
> Does the Squeak VM accept a -visual command line arg?

I don't know if it accepts that arg.  What should I be looking for here?
I believe I'm running in 32bit mode, rather than 24.  I know this causes
some programs problems (like Gnumeric), but I refuse to change it.



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