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When I think about how IE is faster on my machines, I'm mainly thinking in terms of page rendering performance after the first byte and animation/scrolling smoo
by Encosia 12y ago
When I think about how IE is faster on my machines, I'm mainly thinking in terms of page rendering performance after the first byte and animation/scrolling smoothness.
Lately, I've actually found myself lamenting that I needed to further optimize a couple sites so they'd run smoothly on Chrome and/or Safari, when they were already buttery smooth in IE. That's something I never thought I'd find myself thinking.
(BTW, I see that someone downvoted you, but that wasn't me. Your point about AJAX caching is a good one.)
- nostrademons 12y agoI've heard that IE9+ has very effective GPU rendering. That could explain its rendering and animation/scrolling performance. The GPU compositor in Chrome & Safari is kinda hacked-in; it renders layers on the CPU first, blits them to the GPU as a texture, and then composits on a full-layer basis. Touch the CPU renderer and performance immediately goes to shit. I wouldn't be surprised if things get better, at least for Chrome, in the near future.