Re: Javascript performance in Internet Explorer 6 on windows XP SP2 worse than equivalent on Windows 2000

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<spodpaul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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:> >If you are using similar hardware to my own, what else could be causing
: > >the difference?
:
: >Background processes. Processes that Pro is running that Home isn't
: >injecting.
:
: I've gone about killing all non-essential processes via task manager
: (not recommended as a general rule!). After getting it down to almost
: the bare minimum (some processes can't be stopped as they are "system
: critical", stopping other's causes the system to reboot itself after a
: warning) there is a small difference but not much - down to about 6900
: ms.
:
: While compiling the results listed in my previous post, I came across
: one anomaly. A colleague who has a PC identical to mine obtained a
: result of approx 2500 ms. When I logged onto HIS PC I still got
: results around 8000 ms. When I got him to log onto MY PC he also got
: results of 8000 ms.
: Unfortunately my colleague's PC has been allocated to another person
: who is in the process of transferring docs and settings etc. so I can't
: investigate further at the moment.

I got around 8000ms. I set visibility: visible; width: 200px and size="10"
and I got 5100ms. I changed that line to just this:
<select name="mydropdown" style="display:none"> and I got 4275. So, it's
cut in half.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
4275ms

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915
Firefox/1.0.7
4676ms

Opera:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; en) Opera 8.50
1231ms

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