JScript Performance in Internet Explorer 8 Beta

The cat’s finally out of the bag. IE 8 Beta is finally live and available publically for download. Here is a link to the blog post JScript in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers detailing the work done by the JScript team.

Here are a first few set of comments that I found around the performance of JScript engine that is shipped as a part of IE8 Beta.

· John Resig’s post - JavaScript in Internet Explorer 8, wherein he states “… Internet Explorer 8 is our release…”; “…The IE team has made some big improvements in improving garbage collection issues, memory management, and performance - all of which will be greatly appreciated in everyday applications…” - https://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-in-internet-explorer-8/

· “…In fact, it seems IE8 can go toe-to-toe with Opera 9.5 build 9815…” - https://thomas.tanreisoftware.com/?p=89

· “…As for performance, it runs a javascript test I ran before 4 times faster than IE7…” - https://forums.majorgeeks.com/showpost.php?p=1118324&postcount=4

· “It feels fast. I have no data to back this up, but everything feels snappier. Not just script performance but page rendering as well…” - https://www.dzone.com/links/internet_explorer_8_beta_1_first_impressions.html

· “… pages seemed to load at about the same speed or a little bit faster as compared to IE7…” - https://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9887147-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware

 Would add more as we go along.