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Internet Explorer 9 Caught Cheating In SunSpider

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-that's-not-nice dept.

dkd903 writes "A Mozilla engineer has uncovered something embarrassing for Microsoft – Internet Explorer is cheating in the SunSpider Benchmark. The SunSpider, although developed by Apple, has nowadays become a very popular choice of benchmark for the JavaScript engines of browsers."

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  1. Re:Benchmarks by Rockoon · · Score: 1, Troll

    Fear not, Slashdot, for I have read the fucking article!

    The unnamed "Mozilla Engineer" didn't even bother adding his 'true' and "return' to non-sunspider code, but has the balls to declare that the only possible reason for the negative performance when added to the sunspider code is that Microsofts JavaScript engine is cheating.

    Now, maybe Microsoft is cheating here and maybe they arent, but in this article the conclusion obviously preceded the result, that this unnamed mozilla hack didnt even do any of the extremely simple things that might nullify his hypothesis.

    --
    "His name was James Damore."
  2. Re:Do not attribute to malice ... by Tar-Alcarin · · Score: 1, Troll

    Are you calling me stupid? Because I'm sure you're not implying that I misquoted that on purpose.