Re: a faster piggy-bank on my mac

From: Stefano Mazzocchi <stefanom_at_mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:59:04 -0400

Eric Miller wrote:
>
> On Jul 21, 2005, at 11:59 AM, Ryan Lee wrote:
>
>> Eric Miller wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>
>> No, it's actually significantly worse - not only is Firefox
>> frequently spinning, it's starting to slow down the rest of my system
>> as well (OS X 10.3.9), something it didn't do until now.
>
>
> Hmm... the performance variability, plugin-in interaction problems and
> difficulty in profiling are additional indicators to start thinking
> more seriously about decoupling piggy-bank from Firefox and making this
> a stand-alone application.

Yes.

Actually, tell you what, since we are at it, let's start a public
discussion about this.

Coming up next.

-- 
Stefano Mazzocchi
Research Scientist                 Digital Libraries Research Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology            location: E25-131C
77 Massachusetts Ave                   telephone: +1 (617) 253-1096
Cambridge, MA  02139-4307              email: stefanom at mit . edu
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