Re: Slow firefox?

[Mike Pumford <mpumford%mudcovered.org.uk@localhost>]

On 2020-01-12 10:49, Martin Husemann wrote:
> OK, this is a bit of a suprise, but the difference is:
>
> # PKG_OPTIONS.firefox   += debug-info
>
> Without debug-info my firefox 72.0.1 outperforms the windows version on
> the same machine slightly. With the additional symbols (and no other
> changes) the performance drops to roughly 1/3.
>
> Something must be doing lots of symbol lookups...
There is a lot of dynamic library loading in firefox so that might not 
be all that surprising. I'd certainly expect performance parity as I 
don't really notice the difference in performance between firefox NetBSD 
and firefox windows in daily use.

Mike