Re: Firefox performance

[Adam Pribyl <pribyl lowlevel cz>]

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 16:28 +0100, Adam Pribyl wrote:
> >  OK, so it is confirmed, the Firefox using wine _emulator_ on Fedora
> > is
> > most probably _faster_ than the _natively_ compiled Firefox.
>
> Wine is a reimplementation of the Windows API. It is not an emulator.

OK of course.

> switching, startup time etc., which have little or anything to do with
> Javascript.

Yes that's true.

Just my addition to those "where the problem is not". Tried nv, nouveau, 
nvidia drivers. The results are more or less the same, no significant 
difference.

During this I found however there is a big influence of this bug in 
ondemand scaler: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4379
It hits a complete system performance however.

> poc

Adam Pribyl