Aye, not enough can be said about these patches (although I'll push the
envelope here...).  I do hope they're touted as a major feature enhancement
for 1.7.

I hadn't considered seriously using X on my Alphastation 255/233 until I saw
the performance gains on Miata.  Now, Mozilla with XMMS running in the
background-- on this AS255 of all things-- has made me a true believer
again.

*clink*

On 11/8/02 12:43 PM, "Jarkko Teppo" <jarkko.teppo@er-grp.com> wrote:

> 
> Jason R Thorpe said:
> 
>> This is, in large part, due to the work that Charles Hannum did on the
>> dynamic linker (and I added one Alpha-specific performance improvement,
>> as well).
> 
> The whole system  (xfce, mozilla etc.) does feel faster, mozilla is
> almost screaming :-) I'll try some silly "benchmarks" when I have
> the time.
> 
>> 
>> I'm very glad that you're pleased with the results :-)
>> 
> 
> Previously: 21164@500MHz, plenty of memory. Completely unusable. Gave up,
> moved back to netscape. Now it's usable on an Alphaserver 1000
> (21064@233MHz, >300MB mem). Biggest software induced performance boost
> I've seen. Ever.
> 
> 4 seconds, including page rendering and downloading for
> http://www.theregister.co.uk on an AS 1000. Quite impressive.