On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 11:49:10PM -0400, Craig Andrews wrote: > > There are a whole lot of problems that make it almost impossible: > > - Build time and buildd resources > Granted - but Debian builds a lot of packages that require a lot of > processing power. I can't imagine building xulrunner 2x will be that > fatal. > > - Upstream support (PGO is not supported yet on linux) > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418866 somewhat true... but > there are cases of successful building with PGO. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xulrunner-1.9/+bug/213708/comments/1 > links to an arch package that does. > > - Profiling requires a xulrunner application, and I think PGO upstream > > scripts care about firefox. This means 2 things: > By my understanding of > https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Building_with_Profile-Guided_Optimization > xulrunner itself can be used as the profiling app. That way, Firefox isn't > needed at all. > > - xulrunner would be profiled for one application, and not others > > - xulrunner would need to depend on the application, introducing a > > dependency loop, or the packages should be merged. > > > > Let's add to that that I don't know if PGO builds require network at > > build time, but I sure hope it doesn't because that'd be a big NO. > The build doesn't seem to use the network, so I don't think this is an issue. > > > > Not coming any time soon, I'm afraid. > Considering the massive improvement in user experience, and the number of > users who use firefox/iceweasel, it would be nice if this change could be > done. For example, it doesn't look terribly good for Debian (justified or > not) that Firefox for Windows under Wine on Debian performs better than > native Iceweasel on the same Debian install.
massive improvement ? bwarf. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
