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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14085)	11/12/1997 11:39:00 PM
From: drmorgan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

NSCP has updated Communicator. Java improved, well sort of. I updated and found it MUCH faster. But then I upgraded to 32m of EDO from 24m of non-EDO so yes, I know the memory upgrade is what made my machine mean! Communicator was locking up fairly often when I accessed Java but is now really screaming with the 32m of EDO. If you're sick of staring at "Starting Java" messages while waiting for an applet to load, you're in luck. While Communicator's actual Java execution speed remained unchanged in our tests, applet initialization in the newest release is considerably faster than in 4.03. Since most applets are fairly simple these days, initialization is often the biggest reason that Java seems to run so slowly. Our tests produced somewhat scattered results, with applets loading anywhere from 20 percent to 90 percent faster in 4.04, with most applets improving by 20 percent to 30 percent. cnet.com Derek