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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. Re:It's also _BETA_ by Darkness404 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Beta means not for mass release, so it's going to need some polish to speed up and remove debugging symbols or whatever

    Then explain why I could (and did for about 3 months till I got tired of updating the thing every day) run Firefox 3 pre-alpha builds with less crashes and faster performance then I could a Firefox 2 normal build?

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  2. Re:Where is Opera in the benchmarks? by Bazouel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What exactly is offtopic in my post? I smell fan boy moderation.

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  3. Ground up? by Medievalist · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They used webkit and built it from the ground up.

    Hey, I built my own car from the ground up.

    I used a brand new Toyota and one of those 8-ball shifter knobs from Pep Boys - I sure am a great mechanic!