Firefox 3 Performance Gets a Boost
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| Now that Firefox 3 is approaching the home stretch it is important that
| Mozilla starts to throw in performance improvements to really make the
| browser purr. Over in our forum xpgeek pointed out that a Profile-Guided
| Optimization (PGO) build of Firefox 3 had been created which greatly improved
| the performance of JavaScript in the browser. While PGO itself hasn’t yet
| landed in the nightly builds there have been some significant improvements to
| the JavaScript engine.
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http://cybernetnews.com/2008/02/25/firefox-3-performance-gets-a-boost/
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Vista vs XP performance: Some informal tests
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| After posting about the inadequacy of a recent test report I thought it would
| be interesting to conduct my own informal tests of Vista vs XP performance. I
| do not run a computer laboratory, but I guess my tests have the benefit of
| being real-world.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/12/04/vista_vs_xp_tests/
Lies, Damned Lies and Benchmarks, Yet Again
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| As a benchmark writer myself (I'm responsible for the WinTune and PC Pitstop
| benchmarks), I'm here to tell you that no single set of benchmarks can ever
| tell the whole story.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/stratdev/archives/2007/12/lies_damned_lie.html?source=rss
Vista SP1 a Performance Dud
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| After extensive testing of both RTM and SP1-patched versions of Windows
| Vista, it seems clear that the hoped-for performance fixes that Microsoft has
| been hinting at never materialized. Vista + SP1 is no faster than Vista from
| the RTM image.
|
| Bottom Line: If you've been disappointed with the performance of Windows
| Vista to date, get used to it. SP1 is simply not the panacea that many
| predicted. In the end, it's Vista's architecture - not a lack of tuning or
| bug fixes - that makes it perform so poorly on systems that
| were "barn-burners" under Windows XP.
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http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2007/11/vista-sp1-performance-dud.html
Microsoft slammed for badmouthing benchmark
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| They go on to defend the development, version independence and sophistication
| of their benchmarking software. "OfficeBench scares the hell of out
| Microsoft." they claim. "For the first time ever the industry has the tools
| necessary to call the company to the mat for its bloated, CPU cycle-sucking
| ways."
|
| "Microsoft's response? Slam the benchmark! Try to discredit the
| author/source! And crank-up the FUD machine! Sorry, guys! You can run, but
| you can't hide, from OfficeBench."
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/04/microsoft-slammed-attacking
Vista licensing also limits benchmarking
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| License transfers aren't the only thing the End User License Agreement
| (EULA) for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista OS limits. The license
| also puts restrictions on how benchmarks of certain components of
| the OS can be published, another issue that is raising eyebrows as
| Microsoft still has not clarified how changes will specifically
| affect users.
|
| According to the Vista EULA, because the OS contains "one or more
| components" of the .Net Framework 3.0, users can conduct internal
| benchmarking of those components, but can't disclose the results
| of those benchmarks -- or measurements to compare rival products
| -- unless they comply with conditions found at a Microsoft Web
| site.
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http://www.itworld.com/Comp/2218/061101vistalicense/index.html
What Intel Giveth, Microsoft Taketh Away
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| “What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.” Such has been the conventional
| wisdom surrounding the Windows/Intel (“Wintel”) duopoly since the early days
| of Windows 95. In practical terms, it means that performance advancements on
| the hardware side are quickly consumed by the ever-increasing complexity of
| the Windows/Office code base. Case in point: Microsoft Office 2007 which,
| when deployed on Windows Vista, consumes over 12x as much memory and nearly
| 3x as much processing power as the version that graced PCs just 7 short years
| ago (Office 2000).
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http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-intel-giveth-microsoft-taketh-away.html
Windows Vista consumes 600MB of RAM with no apps running
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| closed the sidebar, but sidebar.exe is still alive and using 26MB.
| Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer) is using 55MB. The Search
| Indexer is consuming 30MB. Even the recommended 1GB of RAM might not
| leave much room for applications on Vista.
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http://vistaonamacbookpro.info/?p=108
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