IE8 Beta 2 Fatter Than Firefox and XP

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 2, 2008 @03:11AM 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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Craig Barth is a retard by melted · 2008-09-02 03:35 · Score: 1, Redundant

This is a BETA. There are all kinds of things turned on that will be turned off in the final version. Make your RAM measurements once the final version comes out. And the number of threads doesn't mean anything, since most of them are asleep at any given time.