IE8 Beta 2 Fatter Than Firefox and XP

snydeq writes "Consuming twice as much RAM as Firefox and saturating the CPU with nearly six times as many execution threads, Microsoft's latest beta release of Internet Explorer 8 is in fact more demanding on your PC than Windows XP itself, research firm Devil Mountain Software found in performance tests. According to the firm, which operates a community-based testing network, IE8 Beta 2 consumed 380MB of RAM and spawned 171 concurrent threads during a multi-tab browsing test of popular Web destinations. InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy speculates that Microsoft may be designing IE8 for the multicore future. But until your machine sports four or eight discrete processing cores, IE8 will remain 'porcine,' Devil Mountain's Craig Barth says."

Wow....

[8127972]

We finally found something that sucks more CPU power than Crysis.

Did not take too long...

[Anonymous Coward]

Ah, it did not take too long before fanbois invaded the discussion.

It is difficult to determine who are more annoying fanbois. Apple's or Opera's?

May be a possible poll suggestion?

Real geeks...

[Deathdonut]

...still use Lynx.

FATTER not FASTER

[PsyberS]

I completely misread that title.... I guess I expected it to be some sort of news, not something completely expected.

Re:Real geeks...

[lastchance_000]

Real geeks parse the HTTP responses in their head.

Fatter or Faster?

[Anonymous Coward]

My heart stopped for a moment as I thought i'd read 'faster'...

Re:Firefox is a pig

[EricTheMad]

Since you buy a computer to run applications, not operating systems, shouldn't you expect that most of your resources are going to the applications?

Yes, but hopefully not a single application.

Re:At Least Some Features Are a Step Forward

[pizzach]

I was tickled pink when I discovered that my latest page displays correctly in IE8b2 with absolutely no tweaks. It's a strange feeling having the page display the same (with the same code!) in all major browsers.

Re:It's also _BETA_

[pohl]

I hate being turned into a Microsoft apologist on this one, but give them a break. IE8 is still beta. Comparing release quality software to beta quality software is simply unfair.

I couldn't agree more. We could easily see Microsoft slipping in major architectural changes in beta 3. After all, that's what betas are for!

Re:It's also _BETA_

[jollyreaper]

I hate being turned into a Microsoft apologist on this one, but give them a break. IE8 is still beta. Comparing release quality software to beta quality software is simply unfair.

Microsoft is a lot like Google in that their software never makes it out of beta; unlike Google, they don't admit it.

Porcine

[javilon]

Vista's performance is "porcine" enough by itself, but combined with the new and "improved" IE, you will start thinking about yourself as a swineherd [wikipedia.org]

Check the current poll, man.

[Lilith's Heart-shape]

Ah, it did not take too long before fanbois invaded the discussion. It is difficult to determine who are more annoying fanbois. Apple's or Opera's? May be a possible poll suggestion?

I think that the current poll is "Which Fanboys Make You Cringe the Most?"

As for IE8, I guess somebody saw all the bitching people do about how Firefox is a resource hog and decided, "I'll give 'em something to cry about."

Gentoo, schmentoo.

[Lilith's Heart-shape]

"y'know, if you compiled that from source like Gentoo does, it would be a lot faster..."

Gentoo's worthless and weak. You should have compiled it on Source Mage [sourcemage.org]. :)

Re:Real geeks...

[wattrlz]

Real geeks use butterflies [xkcd.com]. Pretty much like that.

Wow...that was scary

[Joren]

I definitely misread the headline as "IE8 Beta 2 Better Than Firefox and XP." For a second I'd thought the reduced sunspot activity had caused hell to freeze over, but...good to know all is still right with the world.

Re:Real geeks...

[roman_mir]

HTTP? It's for pussies. Real men use TCP, oh, and they don't have these new fancy 'heads' you are talking about. It's all done through the spinal cord.

Re:Firefox is a pig

[interstellar_donkey]

It's designed by Microsoft to answer user complaints of "System Idle Processes" using up so much CPU. This can almost guarantee to lower the resource hog that is "System Idle Processes".

Re:At Least Some Features Are a Step Forward

[Sancho]

It's a strange feeling having the page display the same (with the same code!) in all major browsers.

This is just a beta release. Give it time--I'm sure that Microsoft will fix this obvious bug before IE8 release.

Re:Still only a beta

[Achromatic1978]

Isn't that the same for Apple, though? Don't we hear re every launch of a new Apple product, "Oh everyone knows you don't buy the first release of a new Apple device!"

Let's see though, of our comments, one will be moderated up Funny/Insightful, one will be moderated down Troll/Flamebait. Wonder which will be which?

Re:Gentoo, schmentoo.

[Lilith's Heart-shape]

That's what my cat told me.

Re:Gentoo, schmentoo.

[morgan_greywolf]

Source Mage is a source-based GNU/Linux distribution based on a Sorcery metaphor of "casting" and "dispelling" programs, which we refer to as "spells", and a package manager called "Sorcery".

*slaps forehead* Oh ... my ... Gods. You have got to be kidding me. Please tell me this is a parody site and nothing can really be downloaded from it. Please.

Re:Gentoo, schmentoo.

[geckipede]

I know of at least one person who uses it as their main desktop operating system, and yes, they do consider themselves to have magical powers. It's all a bit depressing.

FF fanboys

[Lilith's Heart-shape]

You realize that, for people who went to USian public schools and don't know how to read for context, that FF could mean either Firefox or Final Fantasy, right?

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Re:Gentoo, schmentoo.

[morgan_greywolf]

You can lie, you know...

Re:Firefox is a pig

[stjobe]

Sorry, I wasn't aiming for efficiency :)

Re:Gentoo, schmentoo.

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