146342 - forte switches optimize on solaris

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Yuedong Du]

Research on optimization of forte on solaris.

Comment 1

[Henry Jia]

There is really work needed to do.
Change the status to "New".

Comment 2

[Yuedong Du]

Attachment: ziped html files

Comment 3

[Yuedong Du]

Test show some combination of swithes give about 10% improvement.

attached is the result of 3 test cases: new window, page load and javascript.

Comment 4

[Dawn Endico]

a test build is now available at 
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/experimental/bug-146342/mozilla-sparc-sun-solaris2.8.tar.gz

Comment 5

[Johannes Rauh]

mozilla starts, but then aborts immediately with this message:

Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_font is NULL or not a fontset.

Bus Error

How do I make these fonts available?

I have the following line in my run-mozilla.sh in order to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/TWWfsw/glib12/lib:/opt/TWWfsw/gcc29r/lib:/opt/TWWfsw/gtk+12/lib:${MOZ_DIST_BIN}:${MOZ_DIST_BIN}/plugins${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+":$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"}

Comment 6

[Yuedong Du]

I attached the gtk/glib 1.2.6.

The binary is built on gtk/glib 1.2.6. The problem is very likely to be
you are using a different version of lib. It's my fault.

Please download the attachment, and untar it.
Then set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the lib path before your 
glib/gtk path.

It should be ok. But if there are still problems, please send us follow
info:

uname -a
gtk/glib version


Thanks a lot

Comment 7

[Yuedong Du]

Sorry, attach failed because the attatchment is too large(6M).
I will ask endico help to upload the gtk/glib.

Comment 8

[Yuedong Du]

the gtk/glib 1.2.6 is uploaded:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/experimental/bug-146342/lib.tar.gz

You can download and untar it. Then set you LD_LIBRARY_PATH to 
include the untared lib path.

Thanks

Comment 9

[Yuedong Du]

The optimized build has passed our QA test, no bugs is introduced by use build
optimize steps below. And it also show some improvement(about 7% for mozilla,
and 5% for netscape,both for solaris).

The build process is:

1.In the environment set
FLAGS="-xO5 -xlibmil"
CXXFLAGS="-xO5 -xlibmil -xlibmopt" 

2.Configure, and  don't use '--enable-optimize' as configure parameters, use
other parameters as usual. Because '--enable-optimize' when 'configure'will
generate -O, which is conflict with -xO5.

3.The lefted build steps are as normal.

Comment 10

[Yuedong Du]

The bug is resolved.

Comment 11

[Yuedong Du]

The comparation of iBench test result of new build to normal build are paste
below. It include 3 testcase:  javascript, pageload and new window.

The test environment: sun blade 100, solaris 8, forte 6u2.

std stand for mozilla build by using standard configure and build process. And
opt stand for mozilla build by using configure and build process pasted above.

java script:(ms)
std 32.73
opt 29.27

page load:(s)
std  117.01
opt  106.15

new windows (ms)
std 1077
opt  987