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IE9 Team Says "Our GPU Acceleration Is Better Than Yours"
An anonymous reader writes "Over on the IE blog Microsoft's Ted Johnson writes, 'With IE9, developers have a fully-hardware accelerated display pipeline that runs from their markup to the screen. Based on their blog posts, the hardware-accelerated implementations of other browsers generally accelerate one phase or the other, but not yet both. Delivering full hardware acceleration, on by default, is an architectural undertaking. When there is a desire to run across multiple platforms, developers introduce abstraction layers and inevitably make tradeoffs which ultimately impact performance and reduce the ability of a browser to achieve 'native' performance. Getting the full value of the GPU is extremely challenging and writing to intermediate layers and libraries instead of an operating system's native support makes it even harder. Windows' DirectX long legacy of powering of the most intensive 3D games has made DirectX the highest performance GPU-based rendering system available.' Some Mozillians hit back in the comments to the IE Blog post and others have written blog posts of their own. PC Mag's Michael Muchmore seems to conclude that IE9 and Firefox 4 are more or less the same (despite the title of his article) while Chrome currently lags behind."
It can't run on XP either, nor phones, nor tablets. Fringe browser for the platform of yesteryear.
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"Cross-platform" means its usable on both Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
wow, GPL acceleration!
Of course! If its free software it must run faster! ;)
How fast is Apache, then?
(very funny typo ;)
But thanks to GPU accelleration, IE9 fails the Acid3 test much faster.
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This is Microsoft we're talking about, they still are the *only* platform of importance.
Fixed that for you.
PS.. please ignore the pile of money behind me.
Wow! MS has really outdone themselves this time... IE9 doesn't go public beta until the 15th and they've already gotten 60% market share? I'm amazed...
Allow me
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If your Kernel panics, it's probably General Protection's fault. But the General will most likely blame it all on a crash caused by Major Device's driver, Private Page.
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You catch on quick don't you?
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Thanks for the seizure, but it works fine in Firefox...
Careful now, you might get PETA involved with you torturing the poor rats with Phil Collins "music'
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You're assuming that the developers who implemented the hardware acceleration support were doing so instead of fixing those bugs, which is a big and likely incorrect assumption.
Agreed.
It's a tired straw man argument.
Unfortunately, that's not what a strawman argument is.
He said a "tired strawman argument," which is one where the straw man is feeling rather listless and can't come up with anything better than a false dichotomy.
Arrrg! My eyes! The browsers, they do nothing!
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
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