Re: ArcticFox browser for SPARC 64bit

Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> Tue, 9 Jul 2024 17:03:37 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

I had some further success... it browses wiki, bing... crashes on ddg.

I reposted with screenshot but the message didn't get through this time :)

Riccardo

Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi!
>
> just today compiling the dev branch of github on my Netra T1 with 
> NetBSD 10.0.... got  to the point where the browser started displayed 
> the page and was able to navigate to www.netbsd.org! hangs with 
> duckduckgo.com though (or crashes). bing.com works quite well!.
>
>
> Still, after almost 5 years, this is a big and satisfying success! 
> Promising!
> No screenshot because I didn't want to spam the list.
>
> Negative note: compile time > 2000 minutes!!!!!! on the same machine 
> with NetBSD 9.3 it was around 1100/1200 minutes.
> Sure, we do have gcc 10.5, but is it really so much worse on sparc? is 
> it the only reason?
>
> Riccardo