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

Lost in Translation

[Anonymous Coward]

I guess nobody here has yet figured out what "beta" means.

OMG!!! Call the press!!! A beta build is oversized, and... gasp!!!... has some bugs too!!!

It's easy to understand the mistake, however- Slashdot is filled with people who only beta quality software which will never be ready for prime time. It's free for a reason...

Re:Lost in Translation

[cyber-vandal]

How is this a troll.....sigh

Re:Beta and debug code

[dedazo]

It sounds a bit like someone hasn't considered the full picture in this 'comparison'...

Of course they have. The FUD storm is just getting underway a bit early this time.

Re:To the mod who modded me as troll:

[nog_lorp]

I would mod you funny if I had mod points/hadn't already posted here. I find it best to ignore the mods, I'd say 80% of the time they are totally retarded.