Related Story Microsoft Internet Explorer versus Netscape Navigator. Internet Explorer 3.0 steals the lead on all three of these multitasking benchmark tests. Here, we ported individual tests that, in their original versions, would have executed as a single thread among many.
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We used an array of 300 elements, reduced from the 20,000 in the original Unix version, because the larger array crippled most of the Java platforms tested here. Note that in this case, the generation of the random values for each pass of each array is part of the timed test. The Quick Sort algorithm used in the next test offers much faster sorting performance on a given array of integers than the Bubble Sort method. Our results show that several JIT compilers were able to optimize the Quick Sort test quite successfully. Sort Longer bars are better.