Hard at work with IE9

It looks like Microsoft are hard at work fixing years of neglect on the IE front.

A new Java engine Microsoft call ‘Chaka or JScript 9.0’ is showing a huge increase in performance by using the new ECMA-262 complier. The old JScript 5.8 used in IE8 uses a single threaded foreground process, whereas the ECMA-262 complier runs a background thread producing high quality machine code that only injects into the foreground thread once compiling is finished. As a background thread it can take advantage of the new generation of multi core processors. Microsoft have posted performance marks from the SunSpider Webkit on their IEBlog. Remember this is only a start.

On top of this IE9 is coming with a range of hardware acceleration features using the Graphics processor on most modern computers. With YouTube and other moving over HTML5 this will mean huge speed increase without any changes to their markup at all.

Isn’t it amazing what a bit of competition can do!

Carlton

Posted by Carlton Duston on 6 May 2010 | 0 comments
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