[Laszlo-user] About IE6 javascript

[Jim Grandy]

Max may have more details or better intuition, but almost certainly  
one of the problems is that the garbage collector in ie6 is very  
badly mis-tuned. Someone told me that there is a hot fix for ie6 that  
improves GC performance, but I haven't verified that tip yet.

jim

On Jun 18, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Can Barışcan wrote:

> My problem is with ie6 because it's so slow it's not a good  
> experience for users of dhtml sites.  Gmail can cope with it  
> though.  Anyways I'm planning to publish flash for ie6 users, and  
> that's when multiple runtimes will be usefull, I wish I didn't have  
> to but  ie6 sucks bigtime.  And a lot of people, companies, schools  
> won't upgrade to 7 in a year or so is my guess.  Currently I have a  
> nice test setup.  Ubuntu: opera, mozilla, firefox, konqueror, and  
> with VMWare I got: Safari 3, ie6(used multiple-ies to install) ,  
> ie7 and win firefox. Sometimes graphics look a little different on  
> windows firefox than linux one...
> cheers,
> Can
>
> On 6/17/07, P T Withington <ptw at openlaszlo.org> wrote:
> On 2007-06-16, at 09:40 EDT, Henry Minsky wrote:
>
> > I believe IE6 is the slowest runtime. In order of speed of
> > execution of
> > javascript, I think we have
> >
> > IE6 slowest
> > Flash 7/8
> > IE7 pretty fast
> > Firefox 2 fastest
>
> You left out
>
> Safari 3 faster still.  :)
>
>

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