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I saw the screenshot and was hoping for crapware-free Firefox, but upon downloading it, the damned Hello icon was there in the toolbar. Presumably later versions will add Pocket too, once they start working off a later upstream Firefox version. Meh.
I paused when I read Intel compiler - that thing is a steaming pile of crap, or at least was for godawful number of releases for a long time and I don't expect it to ever work in the real world with a non-trivial amount of C++ code base. And then I read about a Mozilla header causing it to ICE! Years ago, I was forced to make a company's product faster by "simply" recompiling it with ICC. It was losing in the benchma…
I paused when I read Intel compiler - that thing is a steaming pile of crap, or at least was for godawful number of releases for a long time and I don't expect it to ever work in the real world with a non-trivial amount of C++ code base. And then I read about a Mozilla header causing it to ICE! Years ago, I was forced to make a company's product faster by "simply" recompiling it with ICC. It was losing in the benchma…
I had the exact opposite experience with Intel's "steaming pile of crap" as you put it. We had a computationally intensive app that was sped up by 25% compared to the version produced by MS compiler. This was few years ago though.
Is the Intel Compiler even appreciably faster these days? I thought CLang and GCC had basically caught up...
Assuming you compare apples to apples (IE put them both in the same precision modes, tell them both to actually follow the standard[1], etc), it's not appreciably faster for anything except really specialized kernels. [1] A lot of compilers take "liberties" with the standard by default in the name of performance. See for example, IBM's qstrict and qstrict_induction. The default at O2 and above is Qstrict and Qnostric…
My favorite alternate browser right now is Vivaldi [1]. It's made more for power users with a lot of customization options. It's built by Opera's former CEO. [1] https://vivaldi.com
? Where did you see more customizable options in Vivaldi. Their technical preview is just basically a Chrome reskin and a very clunky reskin, for that matter.
Features include customizable mouse gestures, tabs on the left/right/top/bottom, tabs with preview, tab stacking, tab page tiling, black color theme, custom shortcut keys, web panels, speed dial, etc.
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>Almost all of the lines of code are C++ Significant parts of the functionality are written in JS. >but how often is web performance bounded by UI performance? It's often bounded by JS performance. JS performance depends on the JIT output , much less so the speed with which the JIT itself runs. The rendering engine may be a factor, but there HW acceleration also factors in. It's far from being clear cut. Media decodi…
> Significant parts of the functionality are written in JS. Such as? > It's often bounded by JS performance. JS performance depends on the JIT output, much less so the speed with which the JIT itself runs. On what? Last I looked, even things like FB & Gmail are largely bound by performance of C++ code. Sure, there's a few hot JS functions high-up in the profiles (esp. in the large data structures they build up when i…
Looks for .js and .jsm in the source tree.
Bookmarks, Tab management, all UX, PDF viewer, Search, Prefs, Sync, parts of SafeBrowsing, WebRTC, Update Handling, Login and Form manager, Devtools, Reader Mode, and uh I think I've proven my point.
My favorite alternate browser right now is Vivaldi [1]. It's made more for power users with a lot of customization options. It's built by Opera's former CEO. [1] https://vivaldi.com
? Where did you see more customizable options in Vivaldi. Their technical preview is just basically a Chrome reskin and a very clunky reskin, for that matter.