Mercury - a Firefox fork with compiler optimizations ( github.com )

1984 , 5 months ago

You won't notice any difference whatsoever.

Atemu , 5 months ago

Claims 7-10% performance improvement on an old AMD FX thing. No information about the baseline though; whether it's the terrible Snap or Firefox's official binary package. I suspect it's the former because it has known performance issues IIRC and the latter has quite good compiler optimisations already (LTO+PGO making most of the difference).

When I built Firefox for x86_64-v3, I saw no measurable improvement over x86_64-v1 in speedometer. I didn't dare to build the most security critical application on my system with unsafe compiler optimisations though..

z3rOR0ne , 5 months ago

After the shenanigans with that dev and his other project, Thorium. No fucking thanks.

wopazoo , 5 months ago

Could you elaborate? I'm not familiar with the drama.

z3rOR0ne , 5 months ago

Chris Titus Tech explains the issue well enough in this video.

RootBeerGuy , 5 months ago

Fucks sake, why does it have to be a 10 minute video to get a simple, short answer?

d3Xt3r , 5 months ago

Out-of-the-loop here, what shenanigans?

z3rOR0ne , 5 months ago

The developer included furry porn art as part of the code base of his other browser project, Thorium. He removed it after it was discovered.

vojel OP , 5 months ago

Do I really want to know what furry porn is?🤨

sugartits , 5 months ago

Don't ever go to 4chan. Ever. You will lose your innocence.