Safari 4 vs IE Benchmarks Are In

      by Wyatt Walter

Yesterday Apple released a the first beta version of Safari 4 boasting Javascript rendering “30x faster” than Internet Explorer 7. Today, ZDNet released the results of a benchmark that proves exactly that. In fact, the tests show roughly 42 times faster rendering. The browser was very close to Mozilla Minefield as well as Google Chrome, but still better than the other two. Firefox 3, Opera 9.6 and IE8 were all much slower than the other three with IE8 by far the slowest. Then it came to IE7.. It’s not even worth comparing the two as, of course, IE7 was 42x slower at rendering the page. In a world where desktop applications are migrating from the desktop to the browser, Javascript rendering is going to be very important for application performance. Safari has been rated as the fastest browser at rendering Javascript in the past and it appears it has just raised the bar again.

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One Response to “Safari 4 vs IE Benchmarks Are In”

  1. The End of Internet Explorer? | What a n00b! Says:
    March 10th, 2009 at 10:26 pm

    [...] Rumor has it that Internet Explorer 8 may be the end of the life for the most popular browser in the world. According to Infoworld, Microsoft will be ditching its Internet Explorer rendering engine after the next major release of their browser. The rumors have been conflicting thus far, ranging from saying that Microsoft will be taking on WebKit with their next browser or developing a new engine codenamed “Gazelle”. WebKit is the engine that Apple chose for Safari as well as Google for Chrome which has so far helped the two browsers be the fastest on the market. [...]

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