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IE8 Beta 2 Fatter Than Firefox and XP

Posted by timothy on from the other-than-that-how-was-the-parade dept.

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."

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  1. Wow.... by 8127972 · · Score: 4, Funny

    We finally found something that sucks more CPU power than Crysis.

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  2. Real geeks... by Deathdonut · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...still use Lynx.

    1. Re:Real geeks... by lastchance_000 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Real geeks parse the HTTP responses in their head.

  3. Fatter or Faster? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    My heart stopped for a moment as I thought i'd read 'faster'...

  4. Re:Firefox is a pig by EricTheMad · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since you buy a computer to run applications, not operating systems, shouldn't you expect that most of your resources are going to the applications?

    Yes, but hopefully not a single application.

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  5. Re:It's also _BETA_ by jollyreaper · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hate being turned into a Microsoft apologist on this one, but give them a break. IE8 is still beta. Comparing release quality software to beta quality software is simply unfair.

    Microsoft is a lot like Google in that their software never makes it out of beta; unlike Google, they don't admit it.

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  6. Porcine by javilon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Vista's performance is "porcine" enough by itself, but combined with the new and "improved" IE, you will start thinking about yourself as a swineherd

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  7. Check the current poll, man. by Lilith's+Heart-shape · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ah, it did not take too long before fanbois invaded the discussion. It is difficult to determine who are more annoying fanbois. Apple's or Opera's? May be a possible poll suggestion?

    I think that the current poll is "Which Fanboys Make You Cringe the Most?"

    As for IE8, I guess somebody saw all the bitching people do about how Firefox is a resource hog and decided, "I'll give 'em something to cry about."

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  8. Gentoo, schmentoo. by Lilith's+Heart-shape · · Score: 3, Funny

    "y'know, if you compiled that from source like Gentoo does, it would be a lot faster..."

    Gentoo's worthless and weak. You should have compiled it on Source Mage. :)

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    1. Re:Gentoo, schmentoo. by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 3, Funny

      Source Mage is a source-based GNU/Linux distribution based on a Sorcery metaphor of "casting" and "dispelling" programs, which we refer to as "spells", and a package manager called "Sorcery".

      *slaps forehead* Oh ... my ... Gods. You have got to be kidding me. Please tell me this is a parody site and nothing can really be downloaded from it. Please.

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    2. Re:Gentoo, schmentoo. by geckipede · · Score: 3, Funny

      I know of at least one person who uses it as their main desktop operating system, and yes, they do consider themselves to have magical powers. It's all a bit depressing.

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  9. Re:Firefox is a pig by interstellar_donkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's designed by Microsoft to answer user complaints of "System Idle Processes" using up so much CPU. This can almost guarantee to lower the resource hog that is "System Idle Processes".

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  10. Re:At Least Some Features Are a Step Forward by Sancho · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's a strange feeling having the page display the same (with the same code!) in all major browsers.

    This is just a beta release. Give it time--I'm sure that Microsoft will fix this obvious bug before IE8 release.