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Now that Microsoft has finally made Internet Explorer 9 available to the masses, it’s time for a BIG browser benchmark where we take the leading browsers and pit them against four of the toughest benchmark tests available to see which is the tortoise, and which is the hare.
Here are the browsers that will be run:
•Internet Explorer 9 (9.0.8112.16421) 32-bit
•Internet Explorer 9 (9.0.8112.16421) 64-bit
•Firefox 4 RC
•Chrome 10.0.648.133
•Safari 5.0.4
•Opera 11.01
OK, so what conclusions can we draw? Well, let's begin with the obvious and say that Internet Explorer 9 64-bit is an absolute dog when it comes to JavaScript performance.
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So, what's the conclusion? Simple, IE9 64-bit is shockingly bad, and all the other browsers are, on the whole, pretty evenly matched.
