Microsoft: Internet Explorer 9 will be faster

Among other topics, Microsoft was also heard talking about Internet Explorer 9 at PDC 2009, held in Los Angeles this week. Specifically, the Redmond-based software giant shared about how it is working to significantly speed up Internet Explorer's (IE) rendering of JavaScript, improve in the area of Web standards, and tap on hardware graphics acceleration to enhance the IE experience.

When it comes to JavaScript, Microsoft is really way behind.  In order to appreciate the vast chasm in performance, consider that Chrome performs JavaScript benchmarking tests 10 times faster than Internet Explorer 8, while Firefox performs them at four times the speed.

Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager, Internet Explorer, is not frazzled, however.  In a blog entry, Hachamovitch showed how strident improvements have already been made to IE9's JavaScript performance.  In addition, he also shared of how IE9 will leverage the hardware acceleration in modern GPUs for its graphics and text rendering.  By not limiting the Web browser to the processing limitations of the CPU, Hachamovitch is working to make IE render graphically-rich sites faster and better than competing browsers.

For more on this story:

- check out this article at Ars Technica

- check out this article at PC World