"What makes Waterfox so fast? It's built with Intel's C++ compiler. One of the most powerful compilers out there. This enables us to make the fastest possible web browser for all the code changes we make. This potent combination makes for an unparalleled browsing experience."
Mm-Hm. How's that working out?
https://www.waterfoxproject.org/blog/
"Just a quick heads up why there hasn’t been any news from me in regards to the latest Firefox release. Mozilla have a new tuple header that they’ve created and gets used fairly frequently and unfortunately, this causes an internal compiler error as can be seen here." [Written by Alex Kontos
November 9th, 2015]
Always a pleasure to count the number of clicks needed before you can establish that the only platforms are Mac and Windows.
Why so critical? He's making a bold claim, but you're not even responding to that. You're just attacking him because he's using a different compiler suite? If you know of problems with the Intel compiler suite, how about you let us know what they are instead of passively aggressively pointing to a single recent problem which from the bug report I'm not sure is the fault of Intel's compiler not being conformant or not functioning with a recent feature, or GCC accepting a non-conformant structure, and whether being cross-compiler portable in that way is even a goal of the Firefox team.
> Always a pleasure to count the number of clicks needed before you can establish that the only platforms are Mac and Windows.
Would you like to guess how many clicks it takes to determine that for Firefox itself when you aren't currently running Linux? It used to be you could easily get to a directory listing of Firefox builds. Apparently it's harder to find now, and Firefox just starts an auto-download for your OS and architecture based on your user agent, and if you search for how to install on Linux, they make it clear that may not be the best way to install ("Use the method that works best for your distro", which may be through the distro package manager).
Mm-Hm. How's that working out?
https://www.waterfoxproject.org/blog/ "Just a quick heads up why there hasn’t been any news from me in regards to the latest Firefox release. Mozilla have a new tuple header that they’ve created and gets used fairly frequently and unfortunately, this causes an internal compiler error as can be seen here." [Written by Alex Kontos November 9th, 2015]
Always a pleasure to count the number of clicks needed before you can establish that the only platforms are Mac and Windows.