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Greg A. Woods wrote:
> I finally got mozilla-gtk2-1.6nb2 to build, install, and run on my
> alpha, but I find it deathly slow.  Netscape-4.6 was faster on my
> ancient 486sx25!

Well, Mozilla *is* very slow compared to Netscape 4.x. Fix a couple
of bugs in Netscape, add tabbed browsing I'll happily never use
Mozilla again. OTOH, people keep saying The-Browser-Which-Changes-
Its-Name-With-Every-Release is light-weight(?!). *shudder*

> It takes over a minute of CPU time for mozilla just to put up the
> profile selector, and another 50 CPU seconds to fetch and render the
> default home page.  That's a hell of a lot of CPU cycles.

Does the kernel automagically correct alignment errors? This would
explain your problems. I didn't use GCC to build Mozilla for Alpha
and GCC causes pretty funky effects if there are any alignment
errors e.g., not causing a SIGBUS but leaving a loop too early or
so.
It could also be a problem with Pango the font library for GTK+ 2.x.
Maybe your fontcache is messed. Try to remove or re-create it. You
could also try to set GTK_USE_XFT=3D0 in the shell environment.
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> So, is mozilla just very slow on alpha, or is mozilla-gtk2 slow
> everywhere?

GTK+ 2.x is certainly not faster than GTK+ 1.2.x anywhere. I wouldn't
use it for Mozilla. Or, what's the benefit? GTK+ 1.2.x is deprecated
but it works fine with Mozilla.

> Sadly the '-install' option (for my 8-bit NCD HMX display) doesn't seem
> to be working completely either (images and icons are fuzzy even though
> a private colour-map is allocated and used).

Have you tried '--no-xshm'? At least, GTK+ 1.2.x had problems with
using the shared memory extension with X.

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