From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

I gave it a quick spin: FireFox read roughly 3200k bytes and wrote about
27k at startup, while IE did 122k reading and 0.9 writing. Pretty big
difference, though I have no way to see *what* it was.


Antti Kurenniemi
(now there's some pointless benchmarking if I ever saw any )

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:415ab82c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >IE actually loads more DLLs
>
> Thanks for that info. If DLLs actually constitute the bulk of IE's helper
> load, and you're not just playing semantics with us, Microsoft is using
> some
> good filesystem optimizations in its load process.  IE's load time is not
> just
> dramatically shorter, it's nearly an order of magnitude shorter (haven't
> measured it).
>

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