Eric Miller wrote:
> I don't have a clear understanding of how this happened as I played
> with too many variables at once to know which is the culprit. But with
> an upgrade of my Mac to Tiger, installing the 0.92 java embedding
> plugin [1] and upgrading to the new Firefox 1.0.6 release [2] I'm
> seeing a noticeable performance gain in the piggy-bank plugin.
>
> While I haven't don't have any specific bench-marks to compare this to,
> I'm looking at what I believe to be at least a 3x performance
> increase. Also, I'm not seeing the painful one-time initialization
> delay that we've seen the past when loading a new piggy-bank plugin.
>
> It may be the memory fix mentioned for Firefox 1.1 [3] made it into the
> 1.0.6 release as well. Anyone else running the new Firefox 1.0.6 seeing
> an increase in performance?
Upgrading to Tiger means that you now use Apple's JVM 1.4.2_08 (instead
of 1.4.2_06). I haven't heard of performance improvements between those
two versions, but this might also have contributed to the speed-up.
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Received on Thu Jul 21 2005 - 06:52:21 EDT