Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) today released first x86 12-core processor, doubling the number of cores in the previous generation chip in its Opteron line, leaving Fastest Intel Processor 8 Core Nehalem-EX in the dust.

The new 12-core Opteron is code-named “Magny-Cours” .. Read Further »

Internet Explorer 8 and lower showed the world that a browser can have poor underlying javascript execution engines, lack of Modern web support (HTML5, CSS3) and poor threads that render webpages sluggishly for most users.

But it’s time to change it all. Microsoft has built the new browser ground up and lead innovation to let the industry to follow. IE9 is the First browser to .. Read Further »

A month after the  preview of Opera 10.5 alpha, and Beta, comes the Stable 10.5 for windows.

Opera claims it’s latest offering, Opera 10.5 Stable,  to be the fastest Browser on Earth for Windows. But the same is true for every platform.

Update: Opera 10.5 Stable for Windows Released at Opera.com

Here is .. Read Further »

It was hardly a few days back when Chrome 4 became stable and now comes the new version. Chrome is growing fast, within time-span of 2 years, it hits v5 in the developer builds.

The list of changes so far is fairly small for PC users. But the javascript performance improvement is again noticeable. On the contrary, Mac users will notice a bit more of a difference, with fixes addressing plugin stability and crashing while dragging tabs, a slightly improved cookies manager, and minor tweaks to Chrome’s task manager.

On the .. Read Further »

Just how bad can an Internet Browser be? Internet Explorer 8 and lower showed the world that a browser can have poor underlying javascript execution engines, lack of Modern web support (HTML5, CSS3) and poor threads that render webpages sluggishly for most users.

What is HTML 5 and FAQ

Things are going to change, Microsoft yesterday at  PDC 09 told the world that they want to change the face IE had been living with. With IE 9 Microsoft .. Read Further »

I love Windows 7 but I can’t give up by favorite Linux OSeither. So, I finally decided to do a Performance Benchmark Showdown to decide who gets to rule on my PC. Probably, everyone knows what’s new in both of them.

Chrome’s impressive success on Windows platform has grabbed huge interest in the Google’s browser among the web enthusiasts, geeks and developers.  Primary Reasons: Speed, and more recently, Extensions on Chrome 4. But if you don’t like Windows 7, don’t worry, Chrome is becoming better on Snow Leopard

Recently, we have seen pre-beta builds (chromium) appearing for Linux and Mac. I must admit, I was less than impressed.  Chromium builds have been a .. Read Further »

The race of browsers had been inevitable since the launch of Chrome. Google came out of no-where and gave public the fastest browser, leaving Firefox and Safari in shame. The developers at Mozilla continue to innovate and fine-tune their Javascript execution engine.

Mozilla , next week, is rolling out first Firefox 3.6 public Beta. The Release is supposed to be the first one, with big fixes for .. Read Further »

WP SuperCache pretty much does a very good job at speeding up wordpress blogs. By preparing static HTML pages from the original PHP and Mysql executions, a big performance improvement is observed.

Misconception: I don’t need caching

For a typical theme in wordpress, it needs to execute about 35 SQLs and 1000 of lines of PHP logic to yield a single page. Sure, modern servers are fast enough to do all this in split seconds. But when it comes to handling large traffics, like from Digg, Reddit,etc. it could easily prove out to be an overkill for the CPU. Put a Xeon or Core i7, just nothing would be able to handle 1000 simultaneous hits, without delays.

WP SuperCache

It’s among the .. Read Further »

Java is one of the language which has overhauled it’s underneath technology ground-up. Even though, the basic concept of running inside JVM holds good, the way JVM handles Objects, Memory management has completely been revamped.

A lot  changed over 1.4 to 1.5. There were critical compile-time improvements, Runtime smartness and with Java 6 more performance optimizations; Java 7 – the modularity.

Let’s start discussing each aspect of Java 7 which makes it .. Read Further »