IE8 Beta 2 Released

I like it. Give me more browser improvements! With the news of Firefox 3.1's JIT JavaScript beasty TraceMonkey, is it too much to hope that IE8 Beta 2 has some similar improvements under the hood?

First you have to find the appropriate page among the 300 or so flogging IE8 Beta 2 in the MS redundaverse. Drilling down into performance, you find the terse:

...the script engine in Internet Explorer 8 is significantly faster than in previous versions, minimizing the load time for webpages based on JavaScript or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX).

OK. Faster. Faster how? How much faster?

It used to be that JavaScript engines were so slow that benchmarks served mostly to show that they weren't suitable for anything serious (slow and slower). It's time for some head-to-head benchmarks. Stay tuned.

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