[rescue] SGI tidbits

Tim H. lists at pellucidar.net
Sun Sep 29 20:29:36 CDT 2002


On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 23:15:22 -0500
Scott Newell <newell at cei.net> wrote:

> Who knew that rendering web pages was such a memory intensive
> operation?  ;-)
> 
> But seriously, why on earth would it suck down 80MB?
> 
> 
> newell

For the same reason it takes 2 minutes to load on a P166, the program is
a hog with a lot of baggage.  To be honest, the only two things mozilla
has over IE are lots of platforms and Microsoft.  Performance and
stability are really no better, and standards compliance is not great
either.

Tim



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