IE8 Beta 2 Fatter Than Firefox and XP

snydeq writes "Consuming twice as much RAM as Firefox and saturating the CPU with nearly six times as many execution threads, Microsoft's latest beta release of Internet Explorer 8 is in fact more demanding on your PC than Windows XP itself, research firm Devil Mountain Software found in performance tests. According to the firm, which operates a community-based testing network, IE8 Beta 2 consumed 380MB of RAM and spawned 171 concurrent threads during a multi-tab browsing test of popular Web destinations. InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy speculates that Microsoft may be designing IE8 for the multicore future. But until your machine sports four or eight discrete processing cores, IE8 will remain 'porcine,' Devil Mountain's Craig Barth says."

Comments

Re:Lost in Translation

[cyber-vandal]

Remind me what the price of IE7 is again...

To the mod who modded me as troll:

[Lilith's Heart-shape]

Fuck you if you can't take a joke.

Re:have we forgotten chrome already?

[ceoyoyo]

Did you read the cartoon? I got the distinct impression that Google decided to make a cartoon because they hoped it would cover up some of the hand wavy parts. Such as: "hey, our processes take up more memory initially, but they'll save you in the long run (because we don't intend to look very hard for memory leaks in our code)".

It didn't help that the Google PDF reader rendered the cartoon with lots of parts of the image replaced by white squares (forgot to load that part?) and the link to download the PDF was broken.

Re:It's also _BETA_

[Brad1138]

Excuse me, I worked with FF3 Beta, I knew FF3 Beta, FF3 Beta was my friend. IE8 Beta, you're no FF3 Beta.