Was Internet Explorer 9 cheating the Benchmarks? - RoundUp

Brandon Davenport Nov 21, 2010 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Geek Culture, Industry News, Microsoft, Websites

When you read about Internet Explorer 9 “crushing the competition” with it’s un-believable benchmarking scores, and mind blowing optimizations — you start to wonder how Microsoft managed to squeak this new version out into the public in a short amount of time. Surley they would need to spend quite a while re-doing the IE backbone, and stripping down the engine that loads webpages  — so that’s why a Mozilla engineer dug into the guts of IE 9 and discovered that Microsoft was in-fact “cheating” the SunSpider benchmark.

Read - Microsofts’s IE Team’s response to the up-roar

Read - Digitizor’s analysis of Internet Explorer 9’s abilities

Read - Ars Technica’s editorial on IE’s lies and Dead Code

Read - OSnews on why IE 9 didn’t cheat the benchmarks