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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox

« Last post by tle on July 24, 2026, 08:16:56 am »

@tle

I'll try to add your patches from yesterday for version 153 to my Void Linux templates as soon as possible and run some comparison tests with version 152.

I'd like to point out that Firefox is actually slower than Chromium (on x86_64 and aarch64) for the same KrakenJS tests.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: The new 9070 XT seems like a really interesting card for Blackbird owners.

« Last post by DKnoto on July 22, 2026, 11:52:36 am »

I wouldn't buy a POWER9 system today either.

A) too expensive
B) new systems should be coming out soon.

Re: 1) You’re right that they’re expensive compared to x86_64 solutions, but when you look at the cost per day of use, it’s not that bad. My Talos II cost me a little over $10,000. I’ve been using it for over 4 years, so it works out to less than $7 a day. It’s not that bad ;-)

Re. 2) I’ve been hearing about these new systems for a long time now—probably over two years—and still nothing

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox

« Last post by DKnoto on July 22, 2026, 04:54:47 am »

@tle

I'll try to add your patches from yesterday for version 153 to my Void Linux templates as soon as possible and run some comparison tests with version 152.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Follow-up: Void Linux on ppc64le - Firefox Native Build vs Fedora 42

« Last post by tle on July 22, 2026, 02:58:21 am »

Your finding is spot on. Clang+LTO produces the smallest size binary and the performance is better.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox

« Last post by tle on July 22, 2026, 02:23:51 am »

Chiming in to say I've been testing a Fedora build of v152 that has not hiccuped once and finally feels like a full-featured browser. It's slower than Chromium on the same hardware - the Kraken JS test indicated around 1200ms on Chromium, and a skosh over 2100ms on Firefox - but for everyday usage I'm quite happy. Thanks for this!

The Firefox 153 JIT SpiderMonkey is actually 18% faster than Chromium + V8. The slowness derives from the browser side, likely DOM rendering which is out of scope of this work btw.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Follow-up: Void Linux on ppc64le - Firefox Native Build vs Fedora 42

« Last post by tle on July 20, 2026, 07:59:02 pm »

Good finding. Let me try to dig in a bit and see if I could re-produce similar results on Fedora 44

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox

« Last post by tle on July 20, 2026, 07:55:51 pm »

tle, are you already using Fable, or which model do you use?

I do use a little bit of Fable before it was taken down by the US government. These days I use a bit of Opus for mundane tasks like rebasing or monitoring full test suites run.

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User Zone / Re: anyone running local LLMs?

« Last post by atomicdog on July 20, 2026, 04:10:39 pm »

Claude Code doesn't run on POWER, you need to use SSH or NFS from an x64.

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User Zone / Re: anyone running local LLMs?

« Last post by power9mm on July 20, 2026, 03:06:27 pm »

You could give this a try: https://github.com/Scottcjn/nvidia-power8-patches

Yeah I saw that in the other thread, I suppose I'll have to give it a go if I get another power9 system before any new systems roll out whenever that will be but I don't think it'll be for awhile.. Surprised there hasn't been much interest running it on open hardware. How does claude and other LLMs work on POWER?

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User Zone / Re: anyone running local LLMs?

« Last post by MPC7500 on July 20, 2026, 01:58:01 pm »

You could give this a try: https://github.com/Scottcjn/nvidia-power8-patches