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make Firefox faster (self.gentoo)

submitted 2 months ago by soaska to c/[email protected]

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I want to get more points in speedometer 3 using firefox. I've seen results above 20-24, but I can't get more than 12 because js takes a long time to process. What to do? Rebuild firefox with the -0fast flag?? Or do something with config. I use some fixes in it which just extend limits for everything (almost)

Any suggestions are welcome

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@waz @soaska There are other reasons to be cautious about using AVX - older CPUs that support it are forcibly downclocked when the instructions are used so you'd better make sure that your vectorised loops are delivering enough benefits for the 10-20% penalty for all the rest of the code

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35663635/why-do-processors-with-only-avx-out-perform-avx2-processors-for-many-simd-algori/44353690#44353690

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56852812/simd-instructions-lowering-cpu-frequency

[–] waz 2 points 2 months ago

Ohh, cool. Thanks for the warning. This just got complicated enough that I am definitely going to have do go down this rabbit hole.