[Bug 234201] [NEW] firefox not compiled with optimization flags

[Alexander Sack]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 01:43:45AM -0000, Dražen Kačar wrote:
> Public bug reported:
> 
> Binary package hint: mozilla-firefox
> 
> Ubuntu 8.04
> 
> package: firefox-3.0
> version: 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
> 
> Look at about:buildconfig and you'll notice there is not a single
> optimization flag for gcc or g++, although configure options include
> --enable-optimize.
> 
> That probably should have been --enable-optimize=-O2 or something like
> that.
> 
> The browser on my system is too slow and optimization flags would help
> with that, I hope.

No, we use the right optimization flags - those are optimized upstream
for certain subsystems. specifying something special like =-O2 will
yield suboptimal performance on our main target architectures.

 status invalid

 - Alexander


** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
       Status: Won't Fix => Invalid

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