speed up Firefox start by a factor of 3 on x86

Arjan van de Ven arjan at fenrus.demon.nl
Fri Mar 17 16:23:43 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 08:38 +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:35:03 -0800 John Reiser wrote:
> >In contrast, Firefox always starts in 5 seconds or less on a kernel
> which places
> >the vDSO intelligently:
> I read the long list of your reports at the bugzilla page, with the
> many details and test cases provided, but apart the beginning, you
> pratically received no feedback at all (at least inside bugzilla
> itself): only periodically that "having merged with upstream kernel,
> more than thousands of changes, so please test again and let know..."
> I think you had better to submit your considerations to upstream kernel list.
> In this way if accepted, they would be naturally incorporated also in fedora.
> I'm not a kernel expert so sorry if this doesn't fit for you.
> Juest my 0.02 euros...
> 

that's not going to fly since this is a fix to a fedora specific
patch ;)




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