Subject: Re: is mozilla very slow on alpha, or is mozilla-gtk2 slow everywhere?
To: None <kpneal@pobox.com>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 03/07/2004 16:41:14
[ On Friday, March 5, 2004 at 19:41:19 (-0500), kpneal@pobox.com wrote: ]
> Subject: Re:  is mozilla very slow on alpha, or is mozilla-gtk2 slow everywhere?
>
> Mozilla 1.4 runs decently on a 600MHz 21164A. I'm running 1.6 but
> I installed the -current ld.elf_so shortly after they improved it.
> The upgraded ld.elf_so made Mozilla go from useless to decent, and
> Gnumeric on my 233MHz 21064A because decent as well. 
> 
> (I hope Greg reads the list. I can't mail him directly.)

Yes I do!  ;-)

Well given what mycroft says that seems to be the way to go....

So, I take it pulling in the ld.elf_so fixes to the netbsd-1-6 branch
for Alpha wasn't too difficult.  Maybe I'll give that a shot tonight and
see what happens....

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