aebrahim: W32 2003-11-08 optimised for P3/P4/Athlon/AthlonXP

[aebrahim]

I built Mozilla Firebird today from CVS with MSVC++ .NET 2003 using some optimisations. To build on MSVC++ .NET 2003, I had to use some old headers from the MSVC++ .NET 2002 Standard C++ Library. However, it's using the MSVC++ .NET 2003 compilers and linkers, so it should fully benefit from the new optimisations. The one bug that's blocking full native build support on MSVC++ .NET 2003 (without any code modifications) is:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208314

If you'd like to see native build support for MSVC++ .NET 2003, please sign into Bugzilla and vote for this bug, or better yet, contribute a patch. Thanks.

Optimised for Pentium 4, Pentium M, Celeron 1.7GHz+ and Athlon64 with SSE2 (-Oxs -G7 -arch:SSE2):
http://pryan.org/firebird/aebrahim/Mozi ... 7-SSE2.zip (6.08MB - zip)
http://pryan.org/firebird/aebrahim/Mozi ... 7-SSE2.exe (4.47MB - 7z sfx)
The above build will work on Pentium 4, Pentium M, Celeron 1.7 GHz and above and Athlon64 systems ONLY.

Optimised for Athlon XP and some newer Durons with SSE (-Oxs -G7 -arch:SSE):
http://pryan.org/firebird/aebrahim/Mozi ... G7-SSE.zip (6.08MB - zip)
http://pryan.org/firebird/aebrahim/Mozi ... G7-SSE.exe (4.47MB - 7z sfx)
The above build will work on systems that support the SSE instruction set ONLY.

Optimised for Pentium III and Pentium III based Celerons with SSE (-Oxs -G6 -arch:SSE):
http://pryan.org/firebird/aebrahim/Mozi ... G6-SSE.zip (6.08MB - zip)
http://pryan.org/firebird/aebrahim/Mozi ... G6-SSE.exe (4.47MB - 7z sfx)
The above build will work on systems that support the SSE instruction set ONLY.

Optimised for non-SSE Athlons (-Oxs -G7):
http://pryan.org/firebird/aebrahim/Mozi ... Oxs-G7.zip (6.08MB - zip)
http://pryan.org/firebird/aebrahim/Mozi ... Oxs-G7.exe (4.46MB - 7z sfx)

I should note that I can't guarantee that these builds will work with Windows 95 (Microsoft has removed Windows 95 as a target platform on their .NET 2003 version of development tools), but they will work with Windows 98/NT4 or better, and probably on Windows 95 too.

You can find a copy of these builds (and my older builds) on pryan's mirror:
http://pryan.org/firebird/aebrahim

My .mozconfig is as follows:

. $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --enable-optimize="see build info"
ac_add_options --enable-static
ac_add_options --disable-shared

My builds have the following preference set:
pref("general.useragent.vendorComment", "aebrahim");

I've included a copy of my .mozconfig in the build folder itself. For more on what the optimisation switches do see this link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau ... _.2f.o.asp

[jacsac]

I think we finally have a build where TBE (1.9) works in multiple browser mode and the search bar works also. Hopefully no one will turn up any other bugs. Thanks Aebrahim

[sfty]

I think we finally have a build where TBE (1.9) works in multiple browser mode

can anybody confirm this?

[Goldzilla]

I think we finally have a build where TBE (1.9) works in multiple browser mode

can anybody confirm this?

Yup. This is one nice build. I've done some performance testing which is in another post. Haven't had any problems with TBE/FB/CME RamDisk combination so far.

[opaiev]

cool. can anyone confirm the functioning of using tabs with the search bar?

[joeg]

Mr. Ebrahim has done it again! This build has replaced 02 Nov as my default browser.

Thanks Mr. Ebrahim,

Joe

[Goldzilla]

cool. can anyone confirm the functioning of using tabs with the search bar?

I don't use the search bar so I can't help on that one.

[kendp]

Very good build.

[mhowie]

Faster than 11/05?

[Goldzilla]

Faster than 11/05?

Faster than 0.7 [I have the stats to prove it]. I dumped 11/05 after seeing 11/08 and before running stats.

[Archangel]

Aebrahim this is by far your fastest build yet. It fires up amazingly quick. On my P4 1.8Gh I hit the icon and I was up in an eye blink, never had a build launch that fast. The usual launch time for me is 1-2 sec. Thanks, for this great build. No problems with this one.

[johnleemk]

Is this build as fast or faster than the official Nov 7 build?

[subferno]

I am using the Athlon non SSE Build but I it takes about 5 secs for Firebird to load, same with the original official .7 Athlon build. I remember that older FB builds use to load a whole lot faster on my computer but it just seems slow now. I have nothing else running in the background. I defragged my HD.

Does it have anything to do with extensions that I have installed?

[Goldzilla]

I am using the Athlon non SSE Build but I it takes about 5 secs for Firebird to load, same with the original official .7 Athlon build. I remember that older FB builds use to load a whole lot faster on my computer but it just seems slow now. I have nothing else running in the background. I defragged my HD.

Does it have anything to do with extensions that I have installed?

See my performance post in this forum earlier this afternoon. Extensions make a big difference as there is a lot of work done grabbing stuff off the disk as well as any CPU required for setup. Bookmarks have to be loaded too. And there may be some time (browsing) for grabbing stuff from the disk cache if it's big.

You might want to try Firebird out on a RamDisk. You'll probably be amazed at the startup performance.

[kretz]

very good build thanks