I must correct myself. The article I read was not in PCWeek, but rather in
March Windows NT magazine, in the Ctrl, Alt, Del section. Here is a
snippet of the article.
". . . Someone at Microsoft - a person tired of how Internet Explorer (IE)
4.0 manages memory when loading Web pages - forwarded a confidential memo
to me. According to this memo, Microsoft has an instrumented version of
Trident (AKA IE 4.0) that hooks and logs every memory allocation, labels
each one, and totals the memory allocation.
Developers tested this tool on sample Web pages, the first of which was
Microsoft's home page. If you copy this home page to your machine, you'll
find it's about 30KB. If you separate the all the tags and script, you'll
get 1.6KB of text. But when the developers tested this page with the
instrumented version of Trident, the total memory allocation was about
420KB, 100KB of which was for text buffers. So IE 4.0 allocates about 60
times more memory than needed to display 1.6KB of text!
Next, the developers measured the memory allocation of an Office 9.x sample
scenario page that had a source file size of 4.9MB. After the developers
finished loading the pages (which took was too long, according to the
memo), they discovered that IE 4.0 had sucked up to 61MB (no, that's not a
typo) of memory."
I believe this is more than the usual memory demands of Windows.
Kind regards,
Denys. . .
Denys P. Beauchemin
Hicomp America, Inc.
(800) 323-8863 (281) 288-7438 Fax:(281) 355-6879
denys at hicomp.com www.hicomp.com
Joe had written:
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As for memory demand, as we all have heard before, if Windows needs it, and
it's there, then it will be used. If it's not there and virtual is, then
it
will be used. If not, then things will be v-e-r-y---s-l-o-w, or even GPF.
The systems here are minimum 32MB (with some 40, 64 and 128 in there - the
servers are 128). Maybe I should try an old 486 with 16 MB and see what
happens :) But as for IE 4.01 --- it works with a Pentuim/120, 40MB, 3G
disk Notebook quite well.
Best,
Joe
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