speed up Firefox start by a factor of 3 on x86

[William Lovaton]

El lun, 20-03-2006 a las 11:12 -0500, Dave Jones escribió:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 10:27:47AM +0100, Rudolf Kastl wrote:
>  > 2006/3/17, Arjan van de Ven <arjan at fenrus.demon.nl>:
>  > > On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 08:38 +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
>  > > > On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:35:03 -0800 John Reiser wrote:
>  > > > >In contrast, Firefox always starts in 5 seconds or less on a kernel
>  > > > which places
>  > > > >the vDSO intelligently:
>  > > > I read the long list of your reports at the bugzilla page, with the
>  > > > many details and test cases provided, but apart the beginning, you
>  > > > pratically received no feedback at all (at least inside bugzilla
>  > > > itself): only periodically that "having merged with upstream kernel,
>  > > > more than thousands of changes, so please test again and let know..."
>  > > > I think you had better to submit your considerations to upstream kernel list.
>  > > > In this way if accepted, they would be naturally incorporated also in fedora.
>  > > > I'm not a kernel expert so sorry if this doesn't fit for you.
>  > > > Juest my 0.02 euros...
>  > > >
>  > >
>  > > that's not going to fly since this is a fix to a fedora specific
>  > > patch ;)
>  > >
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>  > > fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
>  > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
>  > >
>  > 
>  > more comments on the fix would be nice. will it be merged?
> 
> I'll throw it into rawhide soon, and if nothing breaks,
> then I'll backport it to the other releases.


Hi Dave,

Is this patch going into Fedora?  I hope it is a good idea, it's a bit
disappointing to lose prelinking benefits in such an important piece of
software like firefox.

Thanks,

-William


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