A Look At Microsoft's 'Mini Internet' For Testing IE

MrSeb writes "With the grandiose bluster that only an aging juggernaut can pull off, Microsoft has detailed the Internet Explorer Performance Lab and its extraordinary efforts to ensure IE9 is competitive and IE10 is the fastest browser in the world. Here are a few bullet points: 128 test computers, 20,000 tests per day, over 850 metrics analyzed, 480GB of runtime data per day, and a granularity of just 100 nanoseconds. The data is reported to 11 server-class (16-core, 16GB of RAM) computers, and the data is stored on a 24-core, 64GB SQL server. The 'mini internet' has content servers, DNS servers, and network emulators (to model various different latencies, throughputs, packet loss)."

Re:And still...

[Anonymous Coward]

The only thing Firefox does fast anymore is update.

1/10,000 of a millisecond

[tepples]

It means that each millisecond of ping is divided into over 9000 [youtube.com] parts.

Re:Granularity of 100 nanoseconds

[ackthpt]

Granularity of 100 nanoseconds: What does that mean?

That's as small as they could get the bits, pounding on them with Steve's chair.

Re:IE Crap

[Krojack]

And still unable to correctly implement CSS2 and HTML4

Fixed that for ya.

HHGttG

[Verdatum]

Wasn't this a plot-point in the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy series? Having an artificial universe on-site so they could go exploring but still be able to come back for long lunches...

Where's the troll?

[Anonymous Coward]

Al Gore is going to be *pissed* when he hears about this.

Mini Internet?

[Smask]

Does that mean they have only porn sites with midget porn? And a mini 4chan, populated with toddlers?

Re:Could use the real internet eh!

[gorzek]

Yes, there must be some conspiracy! Microsoft couldn't possibly want to make a good browser! They must have ulterior motives!

Re:Was /. been bought or what?

[gorzek]

What we really need is another Bitcoin story!