From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 9 1:43:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B0181150EC for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 01:43:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpilgrim@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 20715 invoked by alias); 9 Apr 1999 08:41:12 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-questions@freebsd.org@fixme Received: (qmail 20652 invoked by uid 0); 9 Apr 1999 08:40:57 -0000 Received: from fdsl89.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (216.161.80.89) by ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 9 Apr 1999 08:40:57 -0000 Message-ID: <370DBCE4.25F862F8@uswest.net> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 01:40:04 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim Organization: Neatly stacked heaps of digital chaos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shawn Ramsey , greg strockbine , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP/IP stack - win98 vs FreeBSD References: <370B846F.88E73AE8@dpc.com> <19990407123222.P19144@cpl.net> <370D1BDD.49242B68@uswest.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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). > >> >> 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