[rescue] OT: mozilla on IRIX

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 11:44:43PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> 
>   I've been running 0.9.4 for two days under 6.5.  It's MUCH more
> 
>   BUT.  It is slower than pissing tar.  I mean *really* slow!  This is
> a big-balls R10K box...NOTHING is slow on this machine.  Except
> Mozilla.  I was wondering if, since these are "devlopment" releases of
> Mozilla from SGI, they were compiled without optimization...and if
> anyone had compiled them with source, using the MipsPro compiler, with
> optimization turned on.

In the lintel version, there is a trend for each new release to be
faster.  The same might be true on the mips/irix platform.  Also, did you
get the debugging version with talkback?  On lintel, those versions seem
to be slower.

Next, have you compared Mozilla on Irix against anything else?  In
generally it feels rather sluggish on my dual P2 box, although it is
certainly better than Netscape as far as stability goes.  

Last, you might consider Galleleon, which uses the Mozilla display engine
(gecko I believe), but GTK widgets.  It is supposed to be somewhat faster,
and less memory hoggish.  I haven't gotten around to trying it myself yet.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd