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IE8 consumes more resources than XP
- sosuke 18y agoIf the measurement of more resources than XP is simply more RAM then Firefox has been using more than XP for 3 versions now on my PC. Sitting idle at 310mb right now.
- pierrefar 18y agoIs the RAM usage a function of the new feature of running each tab in its own process? Another thing: it's still beta software. Let's see what the final version does.
- jobeirne 18y agoDoes it drive anyone else crazy when they see "begs the question" used improperly?
- crescendo 18y agoYes, but that's just the way languages progress. Eventually what's wrong will be right, and what's right will be archaic.
- pg 18y agoNot always. I predict this will be one of those mistakes that stays a mistake.
- nuclear_eclipse 18y agoPlease explain. I'd rather use it correctly if I can...
- crescendo 18y agoThe proper use of "begs the question" is as the name of a logical fallacy where the conclusion of an argument appears as one of its premises. Kinda like a circular argument. It's rarely used this way outside of philosophy and logic contexts. Most people nowadays use it to mean something like, "raises the question," which traditionally is incorrect. edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
- dreish 18y agoAsk a dinosaur, appropriately enough: http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000693.html http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000693.html
- aston 18y agoI'm trying to seed a replacement phrase, "beckons the question," so that we get to keep around the cool archaic sense of "beg."
- ksvs 18y agoWhile annoying, it is a useful data point about the writer, like misspellings used to be before spell-checkers became so common.
- etal 18y agoNot when the context of the mistake comes pretty close to the actual meaning of begging the question: IE 8 is fat. Period. All of which begs the question: What were these people thinking? Then it's just amusing. (Rephrased: Since web browsers should not require large amounts of memory, IE8 fails because it requires large amounts of memory.)
- kajecounterhack 18y agoIf IE8 can utilize all those shiny cores Intel/AMD have been spitting out, it'd be useful. But in that case they can't make it a mandatory upgrade for everyone because a lot of people don't have updated gear...
- Hoff 18y agoIE8 needing (more) cores and (more) memory certainly looks like respectable fodder for a future system upgrade marketeering. For purposes of comparison, the no-execute flag (also variously known as execute disable) was another recent triumph of marketeering for software and hardware upgrades. That was a notable marketeering success, too, as no-ex didn't effectively address its goals. What's as interesting as the resources required with IE8 is the compatibility with HTML standards. This as has been discussed elsewhere: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/29/hakon_lie_ie8_interoperability/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/29/hakon_lie_ie8_intero...
- albertcardona 18y agoThe purpose of an OS is to stay out of the way so applications can do their thing. Exactly how is this IE8 vs. XP surprising?
- ars 18y agoIs it a debug build? Don't those use a lot more ram?
- pmjordan 18y agoMemory usage is typically similar because ABI compatibility can't be broken - you have to be able to link a debug object file with a release object file; I doubt they'd release it without optimisations (smaller executable, faster code) as it'd be unbearably slow. The thing that might drive up the consumption on a debug build is an instrumented memory allocator or so, but even then the overhead shouldn't be that massive.
- corentin 18y ago> Not only is it fatter than IE 7, it's also more resource-intensive I've also noticed that programs tend to become more resource intensive over the years. Could it be that they also do more things, as permitted by advances in hardware? Surely that's a terrible thing!
- rw 18y agoFirefox uses more resources than my GNU/Linux installation.