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On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, tom wrote:
Gordon Henderson wrote:On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, tom wrote:http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1532636/new-linux-kernal-speeds-desktopWhat's slow right now is the number of sites that are web2.0 heavy - ie. running a shed-load of javascript in my browser. Even firefox 3.5 is struggling on some sites on my 1.6GHz Atom desktop - the really irritating thing is that it's dual HT core and firefox isn't multi-threaded, so one slow site crowbars the entire browser.I've started to use google chrome for javascript intensive sites - it's stupidly fast compared for ff3.5!Google are now producing .deb's for Chrome too - still mightilly unstable, but it's working for me!Tracemonkey is meant to be multithreaded AND faster than chrome.Make sure your running the latest FF and not the one chosen by the system - still 3.0 something.
I'm running 3.5.2 as downloaded and installed directly.
also about:config *javascript.options.jit.chrome* true
Got that but Chrome is twice as fast even with jit enabled at downloading and rendering a slashdot article.
No plugins for chrome yet though - that's a real PITA. (eg. adblock+)However, much digging about just now and I find 2 things to speed-up Linux which caused some confion! Theres the new memory management which is what that article in the INQ is about - that's in 2.6.31, not releaed yet, and there is also a new scheduller - as a patch to 2.6.30 which will probably never be in a mainstream kernel.
I'm compiling up 2.6.30.5 with the new scheduller as I type... Tried it and it crashed. Back to the drawing board :)
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