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IE 9 Beta Strips Down For Speed
CWmike writes "Those who have written off IE as being slow and old-looking are in for a surprise. The just-released Internet Explorer 9 beta is dramatically faster than its predecessor, sports an elegant, stripped-down interface and adds some useful new features, writes Preston Gralla. Even more surprising than the stripped-down interface is IE9 beta's speed. Internet Explorer has long been the slowest browser by a wide margin. IE9 has turned that around in dramatic fashion, using hardware acceleration and a new JavaScript engine it calls Chakra, which compiles scripts in the background and uses multiple processor cores. In this beta, my tests show it overtaking Firefox for speed, and putting up a respectable showing against Safari, Opera and Chrome. It's even integrated into Windows 7. One big problem: It will not work on Windows XP. So, forget the performance and security boost, many enterprises and netbook users."
Not supporting Macs or Linux shuts out, what - about 2% of IE's potential market...?
Absolutely do not include Sunspider in the results as Mozilla has caught Microsoft (IE) cheating. They are actively detecting these benchmarks are falsely providing results up to twenty times faster than they are able to actually execute the code. The only reason they got caught was because one benchmark was so much faster than what everyone else was doing and the nature of the benchmark seemed unlikely anyone would have such a significant advantage.
IE + Sunspider = absolute lies. The results are rigged.
The later two are far more likely to provide meaningful results. And Kraken is specifically designed to reflect exactly that.
That's not even remotely what that blog post actually says.
Read the whole thing already. That's two replies from two people who didn't even read the damn link. There is even a graphic. Just read the article rather than pretend you did.
Yeah, I was aware of the bogus Sunspider behavior on IE9, but was still curious about the results.
Why did you post in the first place if you are just going to get bitchy and whiny about someone responding to you?
Why are you such a faggot?
To be fair, it could be the percocet talking...