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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."
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This is not a parser error. If it were, it would be impossible for IE's JS to ever produce code which can perform. So your argument is its obviously a simple bug which destroyed JS performance, which is likely to effect any and all JS code and yet they are somehow able to pull of super fast optimizations which are specific to a benchmark and seemingly beyond the ability of any other JS engine.
Or, we can make the obvious assumption. Others are frequently caught at cheating in benchmarks. Obviously MS go caught cheating. Obviously MS cheats. Either that, or according to you, they have some really horrible bugs which means its impossible they could perform so well in every other use.
Holy shit. Dumber than a bag of hammers.