On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 04:23:16PM +0100, Adam Pribyl wrote: > On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> >> Wine is a reimplementation of the Windows API. It is not an emulator. > > OK of course. > >> switching, startup time etc., which have little or anything to do with >> Javascript. > > Yes that's true. > > Just my addition to those "where the problem is not". Tried nv, nouveau, > nvidia drivers. The results are more or less the same, no significant > difference. > For what it's worth, judging from the slashdot comments, many of which are apparently from knowledgeable programmers, it's not a Fedora issue, but a firefox/Linux issue. It also holds for opera, much higher scores in Wine, and using VirtualBox, running Windows 2000 with half the amount of RAM that the native system uses. It also seems to be the case in FreeBSD (running native firefox and opera vs. linux-emulation FreeBSD firefox and opera.) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Joyce: But maybe, we could spend some time together soon? Some night when I'm not being held hostage by a raving psychotic. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
