VS2013 preview released

[dudewithit]

Microsoft have released the VS2013 preview version.

Do you see any reason to switch to VS2013 in future ? Are there any performance improvements in VS2013, that will make moz code faster ?

[Ryrynz]

MC any news here? I've seen MSVC 2013 offer at the very least a performance improvement in the start up of the media player MPC-BE.
The difference is slight on my Vertex 4 but apparently for those still on HDDs improvement is more pronounced. I wonder if this speed improvement
could be across the board?

[Moonchild]

It doesn't look like VS2013 preview supports building the Pale Moon source properly. I've poked at it briefly, and it didn't end well.

I may look into it when VS2013 is closer to release, but it seems the update is more geared towards the Windows 8 UI way of working than actually providing improvements in regular C++ -- on top, VS2012 does a really good job, and I don't have another $600 to blow for a trivial upgrade

[Ryrynz]

Yeah I read there had to be some minor changes to the assembler in MPC-BE for it to compile properly. probably would pay to shelve compatibility until Mozilla's decide to make it compatible.
$600 aye, I wondered what it was going to cost, no upgrade discount? If so that's a bit rough.

[Hannibal living]

Moonchild, I hope I do not annoy you with questions similiar to this, but I think it's worth the possible trouble:
Would the 'Yeppp!' library be an improvement to Pale Moon?
http://www.yeppp.org/

Because it seems that it runs very well on both AMD and Intel processors - even better than the manufacturers'.
http://www.yeppp.org/home/yeppp-performance-numbers
http://www.yeppp.org/home/new-functions ... evaluation

[Moonchild]

And how, exactly, do you figure that polynomial calculations are used in a web browser? XD

[Hannibal living]

I did not recognize it as only vector-based mathematics. I thought there would be more librariy components.

[Moonchild]

Nope, as far as I can see it supports a few core math operations and otherwise vector/polynomial functions. I don't see that being in any way beneficial to Pale Moon. Still, thanks for the suggestion.