Comments on: Windows vs. Linux (Firefox, Firefox Wine and Opera)

By: ardbeg

ardbeg — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:45:09 +0000

Are you seriously using Firefox through Wine as the Windows side in this comparison? Or did I miss something?

Wine+Firefox is not the same as Windows+Firefox. Really, there’s a huge difference.

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Browsersphere » Blog Archive » Around the Browsersphere #12 — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:41:53 +0000

[...] Is Firefox faster on Windows or Linux? [...]

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Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:49:39 +0000

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By: Fandango

Fandango — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:32:26 +0000

the improvement is on javascript benchmarks, and is taken from this page: http://gemal.dk/blog/2008/03/04/firefox_3_with_profileguided_optimization_speeding_ticket/

By: Fandango

Fandango — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:31:04 +0000

I hope this bug gets fixed and you can try again:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418866

The bug is about enabling a compiler feature that tweaks compiler optimization based on runtime profiling, on benchmarks for example. Apparently this can give an 11% performance improvement.

By: Vygantas Lipskas

Vygantas Lipskas — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:45:03 +0000

Hi,

What are you talking about?

By: sigh

sigh — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:31:06 +0000

This is just stupid, Vyggie. Why didn’t you include Opera in a proper fashion? Is it supposed to be some kind of statement?

Pathetic.

By: xErath

xErath — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:15:32 +0000

Hum.. don’t you think people are sick of the same old V8, sunspider benchmarks ?

By: Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:56:17 +0000

IIUC, the difference is the fact that Firefox is, in fact, optimized for Windows, not Linux. In other words, the Linux version of Fx is a port, not the other way around.

It would be interesting to see a similar comparision for Opera (e.g. Windows vs. Linux vs. Wine), since Opera is geared more to be cross platform.

By: FataL

FataL — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:43:10 +0000

Seems the difference is pretty significant. Interesting…