[LINK] IE8 is a resource hog

David Boxall david.boxall at hunterlink.net.au
Fri Sep 5 12:50:18 AEST 2008


It is in beta, after all:
<http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/03/ie8-resource-hog>
...
> In a multi-tab browsing session against 10 websites under Vista, IE8 
> grabbed about 380MB of memory, in contrast with 250MB consumed by IE7 
> and just 159MB by Firefox 3.0.1.
...
> IE8 used average CPU time of 22 per cent when running under Windows XP 
> and 33 per cent under Vista. IE7 used 13 per cent CPU under Windows XP 
> and 24 per cent under Vista. Firefox made the best use of the 
> available CPU resources, consuming 33 per cent CPU under Windows XP 
> and 48 per cent under Vista.
...
> The test report speculated that Microsoft hopes that IE8 will drive 
> customers into further hardware replacements to acquire systems with 
> more than 4GB of memory running 64-bit flavours of Windows.
...

> It also observed that, with its proliferation of threads and multiple 
> execution processes – six discrete instances of iexplore.exe in the 
> tests – IE8 is being positioned by Microsoft to take advantage of more 
> CPU cores in future Intel and AMD chip designs.
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| And it worked.
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