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An Even Faster Browser?

Posted by Cliff on from the living-up-to-the-hype dept.

octavian755 asks: "Seems that a 16-year-old Irish student has created an Internet browser called XWEB, which is the fastest browser known to date. This browser is said to be capable of boosting surfing speeds on a dial-up connection by 100 to 500 percent. What I would like to know is something like this even possible?" Update: 01/20 07:30 GMT by C : As folks have pointed out, this story is a duplicate. Also, a minor title gaffe corrected. Sorry about that.

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  1. I'm really impressed here.. by zcat_NZ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No technical details, not even an 'open' demo so we can see it's not rigged.

    The usual excuse; this is such advanced, groundbreaking stuff and he doesn't want anyone to steal his ideas until after he's been given some development capital.

    Scam. Scam. Scam...

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  2. Re:The easy explaination... by stevey · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Now, even the best coders only do ~100 lines of code per day...

    That's not true; some coders may write 500, some may write 50, and others may write only five.

    I'm not even that sure it is worth measuring the lines of code written as a performance indicator either; I've had days at work where I've written only one line of code - but it was the line to solve a random threading deadlock; and so it was the correct line to write.