- Jan 24, 2011
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Microsoft Edge is Windows 10’s new browser for PCs, tablets, and smartphones, and will debut later this year with a new UI, plenty of features, and a brand new engine supposed to make browsing blazing fast.
Microsoft has already posted benchmark results to show that Edge is faster than its rivals, despite the fact that it’s still in development, but the company now comes back to explain how exactly it managed to make its browser so fast.
It turns out that Intel too was involved in the development process of Edge, and Microsoft says that this isn’t something new because this particular company helped improve Chakra, the JavaScript engine used by Edge and Internet Explorer since 2012.
“Intel expanded its efforts by contributing to the larger Microsoft Edge codebase, specifically focused in the areas of graphics and performance optimizations. Intel has been a major contributor to open source browser engines such as WebKit, Blink, and Gecko, and with our expanded collaboration, they are now directly contributing to the Microsoft Edge codebase to deliver an improved browsing experience for Windows 10,” Microsoftsays.
Specifically, Intel is working with Microsoft to implement Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD), a ECMAScript system, in Chakra and Microsoft Edge, which should allow performing the same operation on multiple values at the same time and thus providing faster code execution.
Read more: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Edge-Browser-Is-Blazing-Fast-Thanks-to-Intel-481956.shtml
Microsoft has already posted benchmark results to show that Edge is faster than its rivals, despite the fact that it’s still in development, but the company now comes back to explain how exactly it managed to make its browser so fast.
It turns out that Intel too was involved in the development process of Edge, and Microsoft says that this isn’t something new because this particular company helped improve Chakra, the JavaScript engine used by Edge and Internet Explorer since 2012.
“Intel expanded its efforts by contributing to the larger Microsoft Edge codebase, specifically focused in the areas of graphics and performance optimizations. Intel has been a major contributor to open source browser engines such as WebKit, Blink, and Gecko, and with our expanded collaboration, they are now directly contributing to the Microsoft Edge codebase to deliver an improved browsing experience for Windows 10,” Microsoftsays.
Specifically, Intel is working with Microsoft to implement Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD), a ECMAScript system, in Chakra and Microsoft Edge, which should allow performing the same operation on multiple values at the same time and thus providing faster code execution.
Read more: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Edge-Browser-Is-Blazing-Fast-Thanks-to-Intel-481956.shtml
