static builds

hussam · Post by **hussam** » April 12th, 2004, 12:37 am

anybody is doing G6 sse static builds?

storm119 · Post by **storm119** » April 12th, 2004, 3:36 am

For this time since no one doing this (G6/SSE) i guess you might want to try O2/GAL6 non SSE build either djeter or JTw ones.

.... or just wait till tomorrow becuz according to one of this builder they might build the O2/GAL6/SSE since fews ppl asking it. :wink:

hussam · Post by **hussam** » April 12th, 2004, 5:38 am

are they static builds? because they seem faster on my PC than the regular ones.

jgutierrez · Post by **jgutierrez** » April 12th, 2004, 5:58 am

Yes, the last djeter is static.

storm119 · Post by **storm119** » April 12th, 2004, 6:13 am

JTw still cannot build static ones...he doing dynamic build but still faster imo...(i've tried his Mozilla and Fx builds):wink: he will doing SeaMonkey build for O2/GAL6/SSE soon.

djeter doing the static builds...but so far only doing O2/GAL7/SSE2 and O2/GAL6 none SSE ones.

mezziah · Post by **mezziah** » April 12th, 2004, 8:12 am

I'd also like to see SSE (not SSE2) optimized Mozilla builds. I could build them, but only Linux builds...

jayfromtaiwan · Post by **jayfromtaiwan** » April 12th, 2004, 4:35 pm

JTw: 2004.04.12(O2/GAL6/SSE Optimized, VS.NET 2003) is OUT :-D

enjoy even though it's not static :-P

Goldzilla · Post by **Goldzilla** » April 13th, 2004, 5:26 am

Static builds with GL are faster because the whole program is optimized. When doing a shared build, you have a whole bunch of little pieces that can be optimized between themselves but not against all of the other routines that call them. With GL, the linker considers optimzations between all callers and callees in the executable.

The downside of this is that the build takes considerably longer and that a lot more virtual memory is needed to hold all of the symbols for comparison at the same time.