David Hyatt wrote:
>
> SeaMonkey (5 runs, cache on): 930
> SeaMonkey (5 runs, cache off): 978
>
> Internet Explorer 6 (5 runs, cache on): 272
> Internet Explorer 6 (5 runs, cache off): 411
>
> jrgm's tests do not allow for the caching of the HTML page, so any
> benefits from the disk cache must necessarily involve images. IE may
> have done much better when going from uncached to cached because it
> might have a much larger memory cache for images. I need to find a way
> to figure out how large IE's image memory cache is...
I looked into the memory cache today - my profile had it set to 4096KB,
which I believe is the default (is it??). After visiting 5 or 6 wired.com
news stories, the memory cache was full. Some things I noticed:
- the amount of memory used is the decoded image size, which reached
500KB for a single "skyscraper" tall banner ad. Load 8 of these and
your cache is full.
- images (such as banner ads) that give the current time (and sometimes
even times in the past?) as an expiration date are cached. These
probably should not be.
I didn't try setting the cache to a larger size yet or try looking at
IE's memory cache options.
-Steve
