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The performance boost from IE11 is nice, but the comparisons to other browsers should be taken with a major grain of salt. Because the thing is, every IE releas
by mkozlows 11y ago
The performance boost from IE11 is nice, but the comparisons to other browsers should be taken with a major grain of salt. Because the thing is, every IE release has "beat the competition" in benchmarks leading up to its release (links below).
But the thing is, other browsers don't stand still and IE releases are so infrequent, that even if IE really is super-fast at release, within six months it's an also-ran. Maybe Edge will break this pattern? It'd be nice.
IE11, from November 2013: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Benchmarks/sunspider/Default.html http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Benchmarks/sunspider/Defau...
IE10, from 2012: http://www.extremetech.com/internet/140337-ie10-on-windows-7-benchmarked-how-does-it-fare-against-google-chrome http://www.extremetech.com/internet/140337-ie10-on-windows-7...
IE9, from 2010: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/03/18/the-new-javascript-engine-in-internet-explorer-9.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/03/18/the-new-javasc...
- sgv 11y agoWhile I completely agree that regular releases and an evergreen browser are extremely important in today's world (and that is the direction that Microsoft Edge is moving towards), I am not sure what point you were trying to make by saying that comparison against competition should be with a grain of salt. All three blogs that you point to talk about SunSpider benchmark (from Apple), and since IE9, or the day the first blog was published, the story holds true. Across platforms (32-bit or 64-bit), Microsoft Edge and IE remain as leaders in that benchmark across all competing browsers. The nearest competitor is around 40% slower. Here are the nos. across major browsers on SunSpider MSEdge: 103 FF Nightly : 176 Chrome Canary: 171