Thank you very much for the information. I have no doubt that the quality of the javascript engine plays a large role. In my case, I am using GWT so I have a very limited control over the javascript that is created. I know the performance of IE may never match Firefox, but is there any way to improve it?
-TJ On Feb 10, 12:48 pm, Jim Douglas <jdou...@basis.com> wrote: > If you have any influence over the choice of browser, IE7 should no > longer be used. > > But the basic problem is simply the quality of the JavaScript engines > in the various browsers. To see this, go to this page in IE7, IE8, > Chrome, and Firefox and compare the results: > > http://webkit.org/perf/sunspider/sunspider.htmlhttp://webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9.1/sunspider-0.9.1/driver.html > > If your application runs a lot of client-side (JavaScript) code, then > the performance on any given browser will be a factor of the speed of > that browser's JavaScript engine. In my most recent testing on > Windows XP, that boils down to: > > Assign a relative speed of 1X to Chrome and Opera; they are > comparable. > Firefox 3.6.13 is about 3X. > IE8 is about 21X. > > On Feb 10, 9:38 am, tjmcc18 <tjmc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > The problem is in production mode when running the compiled > > javascript. > > > On Feb 10, 12:35 pm, Jeff Schwartz <jefftschwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Is the problem in dev or production? > > > On Feb 10, 2011 12:33 PM, "tjmcc18" <tjmc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I am working on a GWT application and over time it has become > > > > extremely slow while running in IE7. It still runs very fast in > > > > Firefox3 however. This leads me to believe there must be some GWT > > > > specific programming techniques that while acceptable when running in > > > > Firefox, cause IE to run very slow. > > > > > I know there are various debuggers and things I can use to attempt to > > > > find the cause, but has anyone run into this issue where IE is slow > > > > and FF is fast? Have you found any techniques which enabled you to > > > > speed up IE? > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > TJ > > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > Groups > > > > "Google Web Toolkit" group.> To post to this group, send email to > > > google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-web-toolkit%2Bunsubs > > > cr...@googlegroups.com> > > > .> For more options, visit this group at > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
