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(DIR) Post #ATDJdFWkVcjlFyfqQC by csepp@merveilles.town
2023-03-02T13:04:55Z
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Holy fuck, Firefox from #Alpine is so much faster on my netbook than Firefox from Debian. Is it because Alpine's is a newer version, or is it because Alpine uses musl and compiles things with -Os? The machine has little cache and RAM, and uses LUKS on spinning rust, so not having to load so much stuff from storage probably helps things.Maybe #Guix on i686 could use -Os??
(DIR) Post #ATDJeHnzWaYabzEWBM by majesty@toot.cat
2023-03-02T18:30:09Z
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@csepp It might be useful if the difference could be quantified, maybe by running the phoronix-test-suite browser suite on each?I would attempt this myself if my eeepc hadn't died recently :(.
(DIR) Post #ATDJeIZ8hIGqyDIAfg by csepp@merveilles.town
2023-03-02T18:34:02Z
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@majesty Oh it's like, noticeably faster. Element loads in like, a minute, as opposed to 10+ minutes.Not sure what the specific speedup is, but it is definitely not just a placebo.Well, it could be a cache thing, but even the browser UI reacts faster and even sites I did not previously load in Debian and which don't have to sync long chat logs (eg.: uni stuff) are loading faster.
(DIR) Post #AYcHSWAC6p7VexDw2K by aperezdc@mastodon.social
2023-03-02T14:15:30Z
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@csepp I've found @WPEWebKit to perform better when built with “-Os” in some old-ish ARM boards where instruction cache is not particularly big and/or bandwidth to system memory is below average. It wouldn't be surprising if it goes similarly with Firefox. Also big browsers are mostly C++ and include their own portability layers, meaning they don't use that much from libc, so a leaner libc may actually be beneficial. The libc idea I haven't checked myself, tho.