New IE9 Build Tops JavaScript Benchmarks (Without Cheating)

Microsoft have just released a new build of the IE9 Platform Preview and they’ve been working hard on JavaScript performance.  This appears to have paid off as it puts their new broswer miles ahead of the current competition in terms of performance.

Looking at the graph (above) it’s nearest competitor, Firefox 3.6 is a very long wa behind in terms of performance.  Microsoft have also improved more features and should ou want to see for ourself you can download the (interface-less) version from the IE test drive website.
I sa in the headline that they achieved this without cheating as blogger Ed Bott has reported that some people simply don’t like the idea of Internet Explorer or Microsoft being better at anthing than the competition, and so are spreading unfounded rumours that are specifically intended to wind up the anti-Microsoft brigade.  Here at Windows7News we know better and will only report the truth.
The result is extremel impressive and LiveSide is saing that it’s 345% better than the IE9 preview build we saw at PDC.  It just goes to show what can be done when graphics hardware is properly utilised, you processors on our graphics chip are far better and faster at pure number-crunching than a standard PC processor will ever be.  We can expect more software houses and more applications to take advantage of the hardware accelleration technologies in Windows Vista and Windows 7 in the years to come.