Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailisthebestcom> wrote:
> IE, on the other hand, has great performance and no standards 
> compliance, and since it hasn't been updated much for years... it was 
> made for older machines :P

  Much of IE's "performance" is deceiving.

  For example, IE seems to take much less memory than other browsers
because many of its components are system components already loaded
into memory, and they are not listed under IE in the task manager.
This means that IE is taking quite a lot of memory, but you won't see
how much using task manager.

  That's also the reason why IE seems to start faster than many other
browsers: Most of its components are already loaded when Windows start,
and thus the *real* launchtime for IE is hidden by having part of it
launch at system startup.

  IE is rather slow at rendering pages. In page rendering speed tests
it performs poorly. (AFAIK in Windows the currently fastest "big" browser
is probably Safari.)

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