why do people think TimberWolf will be 'sluggish' on anything other than X1000 ?

I am reading too many posts like this lately and I disagree because IceWeasel (FireFox port) under Debian on my Samflex runs quite nice and everything on Debian on my system runs slower than on OS4.1u2,... so what are people basing this on

@328gts

When it will released, then we can discuss :) Now it's more like topic for AW.net :)

@kas1e

or more like the 'off topic' at AW
besides I feel the breeze from TimberWolf coming very soon

Dont underestimate the power of amiga :)

@kas1e
Haha! I agree. :D

@328gts
I heard such a rumour. It might even be true *for an early alpha which is not optimised yet*.

Remember how slow OWB was when it first came out? Now it's pretty snappy.

@ChrisH

When ff gets ported to other amigos flavours it will be the best.

I've run ff on my dads laptop and worked like any other browser.

Why do people persist in duplicating threads on Amigans and AW.net?

We often have the exact same thread title, the same initial post and (usually) the same respondents saying the same things.

Waste of space and bandwidth.

Quote:

uhh i think you could have started another thread rather than post this here

oh btw, I do it because I feel like it ...like to get different info from different sources etc etc...maybe when there is only ONE Amiga site this will not be necessary.

@tonyw

It's because it's the way the entire world is. Instead of making anything matter they make nothing matter.

Which equates to the forum world as, freedom of speech regardless of significance or relevance.

...And then, you get someone like me come along and could, lock the thread but, no I am in a good mood today. As long as its not too spread BS around, I don't see what the problem is.

@tonyw Quote:
Ummmm, perhaps because not everyone likes or uses both AW.net & Amigans.net? You might as well complain that both AW.net and Amigans.net exist...

And personally speaking, I'm doing it as an experiment to help decide whether I should just post on one site.

Offtopic, perhaps, but...

Again @ work I faced situation where Firefox does not work on intranet pages. So, one might need also some x86 virtual box to run IE for some work tasks.

@TonyW

+1

EXACTLY

Not everyone frequents all Amiga sites... And if you have an issue with the same posts.. Don't whine about it, be an adult, take the initiative and decide NOT to open the same question on both sites if it offends you so much...

You have the power my friend...

@ChrisH

Ummmm, perhaps because not everyone likes or uses both AW.net & Amigans.net? You might as well complain that both AW.net and Amigans.net exist...

And personally speaking, I'm doing it as an experiment to help decide whether I should just post on one site.

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Posting on one site makes sense - if its worthy 'news' someone else will post likely bring it up there as well. Personally I would stay away from posting on Amiga.org at that moment as that place is descending into chaos. So many negative posters over there and next to no moderation whatsoever.

So how do people feel about this Topic's title now that Timberwolf Alpha 1 has been released?

@djrikki

I think it will be good when it's been polished and bug fixed.

Feels quite ok on my sam. Uses all cpu though. But you can see it redraws things too many times sometimes. So after some more releases and more optimisations, i think it will be very good.

To answer the topic question (now that TWAlpha 1 is out) the answer is: it won't! (be sluggish I mean).
On my Sam, even redrawing everything from 2 to 8 times (plus other missing optimizations) it is still as fast as OWB in most cases and in some other it is mind blowingly faster!
Yes I know OWB has some technical problems right now with ign.com, but even when that site worked fine, it wasnt half as fast and all this on what's supposed to be a "very slow" early Alpha.

So bottom line, it won't be sluggish at all, and it will actually go faster than Debian Firefox when running the latter on same HW (Sam in this case).

@DAX

Please note that the end result won't necessarily be 2 to 8 times faster than what is out now. It will be faster for sure, but by what margin is difficult to say right now.

@Rogue
Thanks for pointing it out. One thing is for sure, since I got my Sam I always felt some sites like IGN to be too slow, but even in current condition, if it wasn't for the glitches I would be very happy with speed on that site, all parts load and render faster than ever, and all fancy menus are very responsive.
Scrolling start smoothly (something that I never saw on that site) but VERY soon redraw issue pop up.

So if you get it to run as fast as it is now with good scrolling and no glitches it would already be perfect!