Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 01:40:04 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim <dpilgrim@uswest.net> To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net>, greg strockbine <gstrock@dpc.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP/IP stack - win98 vs FreeBSD Message-ID: <370DBCE4.25F862F8@uswest.net> References: <370B846F.88E73AE8@dpc.com> <19990407123222.P19144@cpl.net> <370D1BDD.49242B68@uswest.net>
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Darren Pilgrim wrote: > Shawn Ramsey wrote: >>> I don't know if its my imagination or what, >>> but it seems to me that pages appear a lot >>> faster in netscape running under FreeBSD than >>> under win98 (I made sure pages weren't cached). ><snip courtesy of Brevity, Inc.> >> >> I've noticed this as well. Not only do pages load faster, Netscape in >> general seems much snappier. This was Win95 though, can't say for 98. I >> think FreeBSD is just better/faster overall than any MS product. :) > > Last I checked, the recommendation for compiling a stock Win32 Mozilla > was a fast PentiumII, 250MB of disk, and that much again (or more) of > physical memory. Premature send. It should have also said: When you consider the size of netscape.exe (5MB+), that's not that bad, really. But then most of the code is for the home-grown window elements which, I'm sure, aren't very well optimized. Side-by-sides prove this. -- dpilgrim@uswest.net /\ / __ Our lies are merely the gryph@mindless.com / \/OC/URNE truth of another world ICQ: 29880099 Death is not a kill -9, just a DALnet: anim0s make world and shutdown -r now PGPKey available To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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