Bamm Gabriana wrote: >>>>Because a large chunk of them is already loaded with the OS >>> >>>Hmm.. how do I explain this. I have Quick Launch on. Thus Moz >>>and IE are both already preloaded in memory. >>> >>>Yet OE still performs noticeably faster on my computer than >>>Moz Mail. >> >>Because, when you are running Moz, you still have some (most) of IE >>loaded as well (because it's in the OS). When you run IE you don't have >>the overhead of Moz as well. OK, that's a rather simplistic explanation, >>but you get the idea? > > > I have Quick Launch on. Both of them are preloaded. Therefore when > I run IE/OE, Mozilla is also running in the background. So I do have > the overhead of Moz. > > Quick Launch is supposed to have the same effect as IE loading with > the OS, isn't it? > In a simple idealized world yes. But Microsoft is allowed to hack into its own code to make IE perform any way it wants. Even preloaded, Netscape has to spend tons of time playing nice with Microsoft's OS. Interesting factiod: as of Word 6 for windows, what was that in '94? 1/3 of the code writeen for it was for compatibility with other programs. So you can see how supported standards and compatibility can add to overhead.
Stan
