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On 3 Jul, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 12:15:04AM +0100, Torgeir Veimo wrote:
>> Havoc Pennington wrote:
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>> > It's very important to focus on specific interactions, such as
>> > "opening the start menu" or "launching mozilla" or "resizing opaquely"
>> > rather than trying to talk about "overall snappiness" as well.
>>
>> Mozilla is the application which I find to be the slowest on my system,
>> even beating java application sometimes in slowness.
>>
>
> That's not what I mean by "specific interactions" - Mozilla has at
> least a couple million lines of code in it. ;-) Making it snappy
> probably involves changing 1% of those lines. Which lines?
>
Take a look at Firebird. This is the revised Mozilla. On my dual boot
system it is hard to tell whether IE or Firebird are faster. The
changes are more than 1%, although much of this is due to the removal of
the huge amount of code that was unrelated to browsing.
R Horn